Musaeus of Athens

He was regarded as the author of various poetical compositions, especially as connected with the mystic rites of Demeter at Eleusis, over which the legend represented him as presiding in the time of Heracles.

In Aristotle[5] a wife Deioce is given him; while in the elegiac poem of Hermesianax., quoted by Athenaeus (xiii.

According to Pausanias, he was buried on the Mouseion Hill, south-west of the Acropolis,[6] where there was a statue dedicated to a Syrian.

[7] Herodotus reports that, during the reign of Peisistratus at Athens, the scholar Onomacritus collected and arranged the oracles of Musaeus but inserted forgeries of his own devising, later detected by Lasus of Hermione.

[9] We find the following poetical compositions, accounted as his among the ancients:— Aristotle also quotes some verses of Musaeus in Book VIII of his Politics: "Song is to mortals of all things the sweetest."

Linus teaches the letters to Musaeus on the tondo of a kylix . Eretria Painter , circa 440/35 BC. Paris , Louvre .