We have a good number of ancient excerpts that clearly talk about the different Museums during the ‘historical’ times. Briefly, Zeus and Mnemosyne ( = Memory) gave birth to the Muses (the 9 protectors of Knowledge) -the relation is more than obvious. As we have explained in previous analyses, a very possible -for us, almost a certainty- explanation on every call upon the ‘ Muses‘ constitutes an indirect way of Homer and some other ancient writers to denote that what they are going to narrate comes from a Museum a place where Knowledge was stored. NovoScriptorium: Homer invites the ‘ Muse‘ to tell him about Hermes. Our source for the ancient Greek text: Hymn 4 to Hermes There seem to be many interesting things appearing in front of our eyes once we look at the text with the proper attention. In this post we present an original analysis of Homer’s Hymn to Hermes.
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