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The Muses met Thamyris at Dorium.
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“Dorium, where the Muses met Thamyris”
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Muses that dwell on Olympus
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The Muses raise sweet antiphonal voices, calling and answering one another to Apollo’s lyre.
“the Muses lifted up their sweet voices, calling and answering one another”
The Muses are invoked as Olympian goddesses present everywhere and seeing all things, able to recount the chiefs, princes and fleet beyond mortal report.
“And now, O Muses, dwellers in the mansions of Olympus, tell me— for you are goddesses and are in all places so that you see all things, while we know nothing but by report—who were the chiefs and princes of the Danaans? As for the common soldiers, they were so that I could not name every single one of them though I had ten tongues, and though my voice failed not and my heart were of bronze within me, unless you, O Olympian Muses, daughters of aegis-bearing Jove, were to recount them to me. Nevertheless, I will tell the captains of the ships and all the fleet together.”
The Muses met the boasting Thamyris, angrily maimed him, robbed him permanently of his divine power of song, and left him unable to strike the lyre.
“The men of Pylos and Arene, and Thryum where is the ford of the river Alpheus; strong Aipy, Cyparisseis, and Amphigenea; Pteleum, Helos, and Dorium, where the Muses met Thamyris, and stilled his minstrelsy for ever. He was returning from Oechalia, where Eurytus lived and reigned, and boasted that he would surpass even the Muses, daughters of aegis-bearing Jove, if they should sing against him; whereon they were angry, and maimed him. They robbed him of his divine power of song, and thenceforth he could strike the lyre no more. These were commanded by Nestor, knight of Gerene, and with him there came ninety ships.”
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“the Muses”
“Olympian Muses”
“ye Muses that dwell in the mansions of Olympus”
“Muses that dwell on Olympus”