Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

Divine source of poetic and musical skill

divine_source_of_poetic_and_musical_skill

A motif of the Enchanting Music and Sound Power family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


greek

  • Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica XXII. TO POSEIDON / XXIII. TO THE SON OF CRONOS, MOST HIGH / XXIV. TO HESTIA / XXV. TO THE MUSES AND APOLLO; lines 7271-7287 confidence: high

    The speaker begins with the Muses, Apollo, and Zeus; singers and lyre players are through the Muses and Apollo, kings are from Zeus, and one loved by the Muses has sweet speech.

    The passage says singers and lyre players exist through the Muses and Apollo, and that Muse love produces sweet speech.

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