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Musaeus of Athens
Musaeus of Athens ((ギリシア語:Μουσαῖος), ''Mousaios'') was a legendary polymath, philosopher, historian, prophet, seer, priest, poet, and musician, said to have been the founder of priestly poetry in Attica. He composed dedicatory and purificatory hymns and prose treatises, and oracular responses. Herodotus reports that, during the reign of Peisistratus at Athens, the scholar Onomacritus collected and arranged the oracles of Musaeus but inserted forgeries of his own devising, later detected by Lasus of Hermione.〔Herodotus 7.6.3-5; see also 8.96 and 9.43〕 The mystic and oracular verses and customs of Attica, especially of Eleusis, are connected with his name. A ''Titanomachia'' and ''Theogonia'' are also attributed to him by Gottfried Kinkel.〔''Epicorum graecorum fragmenta'', 1878〕
In 450 BC, the playwright Euripides in his play ''Rhesus'' describes him thus, "Musaeus, too, thy holy citizen, of all men most advanced in lore."〔(Euripides, ''Rhesus'' )〕 In 380 BC, Plato says in his ''Ion'' that poets are inspired by Orpheus and Musaeus but the greater are inspired by Homer.〔(Plato, ''Ion'' )〕 In the ''Protagoras'', Plato says that Musaeus was a hierophant and a prophet.〔(Plato, ''Protagoras'' )〕 In the ''Apology'', Socrates says, "What would not a man give if he might converse with Orpheus and Musaeus and Hesiod and Homer? Nay, if this be true, let me die again and again."〔(Plato, ''Apology'' )〕 According to Diodorus Siculus, Musaeus was the son of Orpheus,〔Diodorus Siculus, (4.25.1–2 ).〕 according to Tatian he was the disciple of Orpheus, but according to Diogenes Laertius he was the son of Eumolpus. Alexander Polyhistor, Clement of Alexandria and Eusebius say he was the teacher of Orpheus. Aristotle quotes him in Book VIII of his ''Politics'': "Song is to mortals of all things the sweetest." According to Diogenes Laertius he died and was buried at Phalerum, with the epitaph: "Musaeus, to his sire Eumolpus dear, in Phalerean soil lies buried here." According to Pausanias, he was buried on the Mouseion Hill, south-west of the Acropolis.〔Pausanias 25.8〕 where there was a statue dedicated to a Syrian. For this and other reasons, Artapanus of Alexandria, Alexander Polyhistor, Numenius of Apamea, and Eusebius identify Musaeus with Moses the Jewish lawbringer.〔(Eusebius, ''Praeparatio Evangelica'' IX )〕 Musaeus is singled out in Book 6 of The Aeneid, as someone who the souls of Elysium particularly looked up to.〔Virgil, The Aeneid 6.667.〕
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