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Helicon
also: Ἑλικῶνος
A mountain in Boeotia sacred to the Muses. The poem's opening line asks the 'chorus from Helicon' for inspiration, parodying the standard epic invocation.
Reading notes
- The Battle of Frogs and Mice §1 Helicon
A mountain in Boeotia sacred to the Muses. The poem's opening line asks the 'chorus from Helicon' for inspiration, parodying the standard epic invocation.
- The Epigrams of Homer §6 Helicon
A mountain in Boeotia sacred to the Muses; Poseidon is addressed here as its lord alongside the sea, an epithet echoed almost verbatim in the Homeric Hymn to Poseidon.
- The Homeric Hymns §22.1 Helicon
A mountain in Boeotia sacred to the Muses. The poem's opening line asks the 'chorus from Helicon' for inspiration, parodying the standard epic invocation.