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Musaeus

For people surnamed Musaeus, see Musäus
Musäus

Mus?us is a German surname derived from the Greek Musaeus.People named Mus?us include*Hans Mus?us , actor*Johann Daniel Heinrich Mus?us , jurist...
. Musaeus is also a spider genus (Thomisidae).

Musaeus (or Musaios) was the name attributed to three Greek poets.

usaeus was a mythical seer and priest, the pupil or son of Orpheus

Orpheus

Orpheus was a legendary figure, probably from Thracian origin, venerated by the Greeks and Thracians of the Classical age as a chief among poets and musicians, and the perfector of the lyre invented by Hermes....
, and was said to have been the founder of priestly poetry in Attica. According to Pausanias

Pausanias (geographer)

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Musaeus (or Musaios) was the name attributed to three Greek poets.

Pupil of Orpheus

Musaeus was a mythical seer and priest, the pupil or son of Orpheus

Orpheus

Pausanias (geographer)

Pausanias was a Roman Greece traveller and geographer of the 2nd century AD, who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius....
, he was buried on the Museum Hill, south-west of the Acropolis. He composed dedicatory and purificatory hymns and prose treatises, and oracular responses. These were collected and arranged in the time of Peisistratus

Peisistratos (Athens)

Peisistratus was a tyrant of Athens from 546 to 527/8 BCE. His legacy lies primarily in his institution of the Panathenaic Festival and the consequent first attempt at producing a definitive version for Homeric epics....
by Onomacritus

Onomacritus

Onomacritus , also known as Onomacritos or Onomakritos, was a Greece chresmologue, or compiler of oracles, who lived at the court of the tyrant Pisistratus in Athens....
, who added interpolations. The mystic and oracular verses and customs of Attica, especially of Eleusis, are connected with his name (Herodotus

Herodotus

Herodotus of Halicarnassus was a Greeks historian who lived in the 5th century BC and is regarded as the "Father of History" in Western culture....
vii. 6; viii. 96; ix. 43): for example, Eumolpia. A Titanomachia and Theogonia are also attributed to him by Gottfried Kinkel

Gottfried Kinkel

Johann Gottfried Kinkel was a Germany poet.He was born at Obercassel near Bonn. Having studied theology at Bonn and Berlin, he established himself at Bonn in 1836 as Privatdozent of theology, became master at the gymnasium there, and was for a short time assistant preacher in Cologne....
(Epicorum graecorum fragmenta, 1878). Herodotus

Herodotus

Herodotus of Halicarnassus was a Greeks historian who lived in the 5th century BC and is regarded as the "Father of History" in Western culture....
reports that, during the reign of Peisistratus

Peisistratos (Athens)

Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
, the scholar Onomacritus

Onomacritus

Onomacritus , also known as Onomacritos or Onomakritos, was a Greece chresmologue, or compiler of oracles, who lived at the court of the tyrant Pisistratus in Athens....
was charged with compiling the oracles of Musaeus, but that he inserted forgeries of his own devising, which were detected by Lasus of Hermione.

Ephesian

Musaeus was an Ephesian

Ephesus

Ephesus was an ancient Greek city on the west coast of Anatolia, in the region known as Ionia during the period known as Classical Greece. It was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League....
attached to the court of the kings of Pergamon

Pergamon

Pergamon or Pergamum was an ancient Ancient Greece city in modern-day Turkey, in Mysia, north-western Anatolia, 16 miles from the Aegean Sea, located on a promontory on the north side of the river Caicus , that became the capital of the Kingdom of Pergamon during the Hellenistic Greece, under the Attalid dynasty, 281–133 BC....
, who wrote a Perseis, and poems on Eumenes

Attalid dynasty

The Attalid dynasty was a Hellenistic dynasty that ruled the city of Pergamon after the death of Lysimachus, a general of Alexander the Great. The Attalid kingdom was the rump state left after the collapse of the Lysimachus....
and Attalus I

Attalus I

Attalus I , surnamed Soter ruled Pergamon, a Ionian Greek polis , first as dynast, later as king, from 241 BC to 197 BC. He was the second cousin and the adoptive son of Eumenes I, whom he succeeded, and was the first of the Attalid dynasty to assume the title of king in 238 BC....
(Suda
Suda

The Suda or Souda is a massive 10th century Byzantine Empire Medieval Greek historical encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world. It is an Encyclopedia lexicon with 30,000 entries, many drawing from ancient sources that have since been lost, and often derived from medieval Christian compilers....
s.v.).

Grammaticus

Musaeus (also called Grammaticus in all of the manuscripts) is of uncertain date, but probably belongs to the beginning of the 6th century, as his style and metre are evidently modelled on those of Nonnus

Nonnus

Nonnus , was a Greek language epic poet. He was a native of Panopolis in the Egyptian Thebaid, and probably lived at the end of the 4th or early 5th century....
. He must have lived before Agathias

Agathias

Agathias or Agathias Scholasticus , of Myrina , an Aeolian city in western Asia Minor, was a Greece poet and the historian who is a principal source for that part of the reign of Justinian I covered in his history....
(530-582) and has been identified with the friend of Procopius

Procopius

Procopius of Caesarea was a prominent Byzantine Empire scholar of the family Procopius . A participant himself in the wars of the Emperor Justinian I, he was the major historian of the 6th century, writing the Wars of Justinian, the Buildings of Justinian and the celebrated Secret History....
whose poem (340 hexameter lines) on the story of Hero and Leander

Hero and Leander

Hero and Leander is a Greek mythology, relating the story of Hero , a priestess of Aphrodite who dwelt in a tower in Sestos, at the edge of the Hellespont, and Leander , a young man from Abydos, Hellespont on the other side of the strait....
is by far the most beautiful of the age (editions by Franz Passow

Franz Passow

Franz Ludwig Carl Friedrich Passow was a Germany classics scholar and lexicographer.He was born at Ludwigslust in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In 1807 he was appointed to the professorship of Greek literature at the Weimar gymnasium by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, whose acquaintance he had made during a holiday tour....
, 1810; G. H. Schafer, 1825; C. Dilthey, 1874). The little love-poem Alpheus and Arethusa (Anthol. pal. ix. 362) is also ascribed to Musaeus.