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The hymn to the Muses opens with the story of their birth to Memory and Zeus.
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How it opens, word by word ΜΟΥΣΩΝ Mousôn Of the Muses , θυμίαμα thymíama Incense λίβανον líbanon frankincense . Μνημοσύνης Mnēmosýnēs of Mnemosyne καὶ kaì and Ζηνὸς Zēnòs Zeus ἐριγδούποιο erigdoúpoio loud-thundering θύγατρες thýgatres Daughters , Μοῦσαι Moûsai Muses Πιερίδες Pierídes Pierian ,
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76.1 Daughters of Memory and Zeus. Of the Muses. Incense: frankincense. Daughters of Mnemosyne and loud-thundering Zeus, Pierian Muses, of…76.4 Nurses of the soul. who give birth to the blameless excellence of all education, nurses of the soul,…76.7 With Kalliope the mother. you who revealed the rites of the mysteries to mortals: Kleio, Euterpe, Thaleia, Melpomene,…76.11 Bring glory and the love of excellence. But come, goddesses, to your initiates, many-colored and holy, bringing glory and the lovely,…Open Hymn 76 in the full reader
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