The Muses and the mortal narrator: how gods relate to humankind in the Theogony.(Critical Essay)

Helios | March 22, 2005| | Copyright

In the famous Dichterweihe passage of the Theogony, Hesiod receives inspiration from the Muses and a divine mandate to compose poetry. (1) The cryptic nature of the Muses' statement about "truth" and "lies" (27-28), and its unquestionable importance as a statement of Hesiodic poetics, have combined to make this scene a source of inexhaustible controversy, and debate continues to seethe over its interpretation and programmatic significance for Hesiod's work. (2) For example, the similarity of Theog. 27 to Od. 19.203 has led many scholars to believe that in this line Hesiod is ...

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