Musaeus of Athens

1. Χρησμοί - Χρησμοί, Oracles.
   Peisistratidae, made it his business to collect and arrange the oracles that passed under the name of Musaeus, and was banished by Hipparchus for interpolating in the collection oracles of his own making.^[11]
2. . Precepts,[12] addressed to his son Eumolpus, and extending to the length of 4000 lines.^[13]
3. . A hymn to Demeter. This composition is set down by Pausanias^[14] as the only genuine production of Musaeus extant in his day.
4. . (
   Ancient Greek: Ἐξακέσεις νόσων^[15]
5. . Theogony.[16] (Diog. Laert. Prooem. 3).
6. . Titanomachia ^[17][18]
7. . Spharea ^[19][20] - What this sphaera was, is not clear.
8. . Παραλύσεις, Τελεταὶ and Καθαρμοί.^[21]

Aristotle also quote some verses of Musaeus in Book VIII of his Politics: "Song is to mortals of all things the sweetest." but without specifying from what work or collection.

Some have supposed the Musaeus who is spoken of as the author of the Theogony and Sphaera to be a different person front the old bard of that name. But there does not appear to be any evidence to support that view. The poem on the loves of Hero and Leander is by a very much later author.^[22]

Legacy

• The playwright Euripides in his play Rhesus describes him thus: "Musaeus, too, thy holy citizen, of all men most advanced in lore."^[23]
• Plato says in his Ion that poets are inspired by Orpheus and Musaeus but the greater are inspired by Homer.^[24]
• In the Protagoras, Plato says that Musaeus was a hierophant and a prophet.^[25]
• In the Apology, Socrates says: "What would not a man give if he might converse with Orpheus and Musaeus and Hesiod and Homer? Nay, if this be true, let me die again and again."^[26]
• Jewish lawbringer.^[27]