Minerva and the Muses, , Etching and drypoint, Plate: 8 11/16 × 6 1/2 in. ( × cm), Prints, The Muses, daughters of

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Minerva and the Muses, , Etching and drypoint, Plate: 8 11/16 × 6 1/2 in. ( × cm), Prints, The Muses, daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne (Memory), are mentioned by the Greek poets Hesiod and Homer as sources of inspiration for poets and musicians. Ovid (Metamorphoses 5–678) tells us that when Minerva (the Greek Athena) visited the sisters to see the miraculous fountain created by Pegasus, they told her about their victory over the nine daughters of the Macedonian king Pierus in a singing competition

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