persephpne: they, the muses, once taught hesiod beautiful song, while he was shepherding his flocks
persephpne: they, the muses, once taught hesiod beautiful song, while he was shepherding his flocks on holy mount helicon— thus they spoke, the fluent daughters of great zeus. plucking a branch, to me they gave a staff of laurel, a wondrous thing, and into me they breathed a divine voice, so that i might celebrate both the things that are to be and the things that were before; and they ordered me to honour, in my song, the race of the blessed gods who exist forever, but always to sing of them themselves, the muses, both first and last. -- source link
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