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'mousa'

Greek mousa is a common noun as well as a type of goddess: it literally means "art" or "poetry". In Pindar, to "carry a mousa" is "to excel in the arts". The word probably is derived from the Indo-European root men-, which is also the source of Greek Mnemosyne, English "mind", "mental" and "memory" and Sanskrit "mantra". The Muses, therefore, were both the embodiments and sponsors of performed metrical speech: mousike, whence we get our English term "music", was just "one of the arts of the Muses". Others included Science, Geography, Mathematics, Philosophy, and especially Art, Drama, and Inspiration.

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Saturday, July 16, 2011

THE STROKES - Games (Live on Conan)

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