. nine daughtersof Pierus, who presumed to rival the Muses,were changed into birds. The earliest worshipof the Muses is perhaps correctly assigned toThrace and Pieria about Mt. Olympus, whenceit was introduced into Boeotia (Strab. pp. 410,471) ; and the names of mountains, grottoes,and wells, connected with their worship in theNorth, werelikewise trans-ferred to theSouth. Pierus,a Macedonian,is said to havebeen the firstwho intro-duced the wor-ship of thenine Muses,from Thrace toThespiae, atthe foot of ( 2). It i
. nine daughtersof Pierus, who presumed to rival the Muses,were changed into birds. The earliest worshipof the Muses is perhaps correctly assigned toThrace and Pieria about Mt. Olympus, whenceit was introduced into Boeotia (Strab. pp. 410,471) ; and the names of mountains, grottoes,and wells, connected with their worship in theNorth, werelikewise trans-ferred to theSouth. Pierus,a Macedonian,is said to havebeen the firstwho intro-duced the wor-ship of thenine Muses,from Thrace toThespiae, atthe foot of ( 2). It ispossible thatin this story isconcealed thefact that theThracian wor-ship of nineMuses super-seded a Boeo-tian worship ofthree. NearMt. Helicon, Ephialtes and Otus are said to haveoffered the first sacrifices to them. In the sameplace there was a sanctuary with their statues, thesacred wells Aganippe and Hippocrene, and onMt. Libethrion, which is connected with Helicon,there was a sacred grotto of the Muses. AtThespiae they had a temple and statues, and the. Calliope, the Muse of Epic Poetry.(From a statue in the Vatican.) MUSAEUS Thespians celebrated a solemn festival of theMuses on Mt. Helicon, called Musea (Paus. , 1, xxxi. 3; Plut. Amat. p. 748; 1585).Mt. Parnassus was likewise sacred to them,with the Castalian spring, near which they hada temple. At Athens there was an altar of theMuses in the Academy, besides that to the Muses of the Ilissus near the river. AtSparta they had a temple at which sacrificeswere offered before a war, because they inspiredthe martial music of the Spartans (Paus. ). At Troezen (where they were called Ardal-ides, from a mythical Ardalus who introducedtheir worship), they shared an altar withHypnus, the god of sleep (Paus,, ii. 31, 4). Thesacrifices offered to the Muses consisted oflibations of water or milk, and of honey ( Oed. Col. 100; Serv. ad Eel. vii. 21). Thevarious surnames by which they are designatedby the poets
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