piety-patience-modesty-distrust:“The Dance of the Muses at Mount Helicon” by Bertel Thor
piety-patience-modesty-distrust:“The Dance of the Muses at Mount Helicon” by Bertel Thorvaldsen (1807)“From the Muses of Helicon let us being our singing, that haunt Helicon’s great and holy mountain, and dance on their soft feet round the violet-dark spring and the altar of the mighty son of Kronos. And when they have bathed their gentle skin in Permessos, or the Horse’s Fountain, or holy Olmeios, then on the highest slope of Helicon they make their dances, fair and lovely, stepping lively in time. From there they go forth, veiled in thick mist, and walk by night, uttering beautiful voice, singing of Zeus who bears the aegis.”– Hesiod, Theogony -- source link