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	The Muses Homework Page
		Seated on lofty Mount Olympus near the throne of Zeus, they sang of his greatness, about the marvelous deeds of the splendid Greek heroes and of the origin of the stars, the earth, and all its wonderful creatures.
		After Pegasus the flying horse was born the young colt was taken in by the goddess Athena and carried to Mount Helicon where she entrusted the Muses with his care.
		(Mount Helicon was one of the Muses' sacred mountains, the others being Pierus in Pieria, where they were born, Mount Parnassus with its Castalian spring and, naturally, Mount Olympus.
	www.thanasis.com /muses.htm (1882 words)

	Helicon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Helicon is the name of a mountain in the region of Thespiai in Boeotia, Greece (Kerenyi 1951 p 172), made famous in Greek mythology because two springs sacred to the Muses were located here: the Aganippe and the Hippocrene.
		There the Muses inspired him and he began to sing of the origins of the gods, Thus Helicon became an emblem of poetical inspiration.
		On Helicon too was the spring where Narcissus was inspired by his own beauty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Helicon (200 words)

	Mount Parnassus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mount Parnassus (also Mount Parnassos or Liakoura) is a mountain in central Greece that towers above Delphi, north of the Gulf of Corinth.
		Mount Parnassus is named after Parnassos, the son of the nymph Kleodora and the man Kleopompous.
		According to some traditions, Parnassus was the site of the fountain Castalia and the home of the Muses; according to other traditions, that honor befell Mount Helicon, another mountain in the same range.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mount_Parnassus (412 words)

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		KYRIAKI is a village of 750 families belonging to the district of Livadhia, situated on the north-western side of Mount Tzivri in a small hollow cultivated chiefly with vines, and surrounded closely on all sides by fir-clad summits of the Heliconian range.
		Opposite to the latter, on the eastern side of the gulf, is seen Cape Punda, which is the extremity of Mount Verseniko; beyond it are the inlet and port called Aghia, and then the rugged falls of the same mountain extending to the place where I quitted the coast coming from Dobo.
		KYRIAKI is a village of 30 families belonging to the district of Livadhia, situated on the north-western side of Mount Tzivri in a small hollow cultivated chiefly with vines, and surrounded closely on all sides by fir-clad summits of the Heliconian range.
	users.acn.gr /papaloukas/EnglishVersion/HISTORY.htm (6413 words)

	Pegasus Constellation - Crystalinks
		Two springs were supposedly created when Pegasus's hoof struck the earth; one on Mount Helicon at the behest of Poseidon to prevent the mountain swelling too much and another at Troezen.
		Pegasus flew to mount Helicon, where, striking the ground with his hoof, a stream began to flow which became sacred to the Muses.
		So Helicon the sacred mountain of the Muses is the spiral energy which rises in meditation to bring us to the place of enlightenment.
	www.crystalinks.com /pegasus.html (1338 words)

	The Muses Guild - The Nine Muses of Greek Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Seated on lofty Mount Olympus near the throne of Zeus, they sang of his greatness, about the marvelous deeds of the splendid Greek heroes and of the origin of the stars, the earth, and all its wonderful creatures.
		After Pegasus the flying horse was born the young colt was taken in by the goddess Athena and carried to Mount Helicon where she entrusted the Muses with his care.
		(Mount Helicon was one of the Muses' sacred mountains, the others being Pierus in Pieria, where they were born, Mount Parnassus with its Castalian spring and, naturally, Mount Olympus.
	musesguild.tripod.com /muses (1256 words)

	Mythography \| Helicon in Myth and Art
		Helicon is the name of a large mountain in Boeotia (Boeotia is a region in central Greece).
		Indeed, the nine goddesses known as Muses were especially fond of Mount Helicon.
		The Muses - those divine spirits of inspiration - were linked with Helicon in Greek mythology, poetry, and literature.
	www.loggia.com /myth/helicon.html (374 words)

	Helicon
		Helicon (or Helikon) is the name of a mountain in the region of Thespiae in Boeotia, Greece (Kerenyi 1951 p 172), made famous in Greek mythology because two springs sacred to the Muses were located here: the Aganippe and the Hippocrene.
		In the late 7th century BC, the poet Hesiod sang how in his youth he had pastured his sheep on the slopes of Helicon (Theogony, 23), where Eros and the Muses already had sanctuaries and a dancing-ground near the summit.
		On Helicon too was the spring where Narcissus was inspired by his own beauty.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Mythology/Helicon.html (290 words)

	Pegasus
		The fountain Hippocrene on the Muses' sacred mountain of Helicon was opened by a kick from his hoof.
		During a singing contest between the Pierises, devotees of Orpheus, and the Muses, Mount Helicon swelled with pleasure.
		Mount Helicon obeyed, but at the spot where Pegasus struck there gushed a spring; the Hippocrene or Horse Spring.
	www.artbycrane.com /pegasus.html (1337 words)

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		The HELICON Series is named after Mount Helicon in Greece where legend says the muses of music and dance lived.
		The HELICON Series has 2 x floorstanding, a standmounted, an on-wall, a center speaker and a powerful subwoofer.
		The HELICON Series is developed, designed, hand-built, assembled and individually tested at the DALI factory in Denmark.
	www.dali.dk /int/page191.aspx?sub=214&grp=109 (238 words)

	The Pegasus Myth and Story from Magic Stables
		Pegasus was a jolly and kind horse, he was always seen as a lighthearted creature, a sort of emissary between Earth and Olympus. He loved to gambol around, sometimes in the heavenly fields, sometimes on the earthly plains, and sometimes skimming over the waters from which he had been born.
		During a singing contest between the Pierises and the Muses, Mount Helicon swelled in pleasure.
		Helicon obeyed, but at the spot where Pegasus struck it, there gushed a spring; the Hippocrene or Horse Spring.
	www.magicstables.com /ThePegasusMyth.html (884 words)

	Selections from Book 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A Mount, dearly Beloved, is a swell’d, contracted, and elevated Body or Form: but you must not conceive this Mount to be of Earth, but of Thoughts; it is a swell’d, contracted, and elevated Form in the Mind.
		Fifthly, The name of the Mount is Parnassus; a name, dearly Beloved, is a word, not a thing, but the marks of things, as to distinguish several things, or conceptions of things, whereby to know and understand them.
		Mount Helicon was associated with the Muses, because it was there that Hesoid was called to be a poet.
	www.oldroads.org /Cavendish/Book3.htm (2117 words)

	Pegasus was the winged horse.
		The magical steed struck the ground on Mount Helicon, on the spot a sacred spring to the Muses as the source for poetic inspiration, began to flow.
		The fountain Hippocrene, on the Muse's mountain Helicon, was opened by a kick from his hoof.
		At last Bellerophon by his pride and presumption drew upon himself the anger of the gods; it is said he even attempted to fly up into heaven on his winged steed, but Jupiter sent a gadfly which stung Pegasus and made him throw his rider, who became lame and blind in consequence.
	waltm.net /pegasus.htm (691 words)

	helicon -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The helicon is chiefly used in military bands.
		In the United States, where the bandmaster John Philip Sousa introduced a removable bell, it is usually known as a sousaphone.
		A continuation of the Parnassus range, which rises to about 8,000 ft (2,400 m), the Helicon range reaches only about 5,000 ft. The mountain was celebrated in classical literature as the favourite haunt of the Muses, and its eastern, or Boeotian, side was particularly...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?eu=40719 (656 words)

	Pegasus (mythology) - MSN Encarta
		Pegasus sprang from Medusa's neck when she was killed by the hero Perseus.
		Shortly after its birth, the magic steed struck the ground on Mount Helicon, and on the spot a spring, later sacred to the Muses and believed to be a source for poetic inspiration, began to flow.
		All longed in vain to catch and tame the creature, and this became the obsession of Bellerophon, prince of Corinth.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570460/Pegasus_(mythology).html (244 words)

	Paper presented at the joint meeting of ICOFOM and MINOM during the General Conference of ICOM at Stavanger, July 4th, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		(...) The nymphs agreed unanimously that the goddesses of Helicon were the victors.
		With this 'new' perspective as driving force, ICOFOM should act as catalyst to generate the synergy resulting from the interaction of theory, practice and attitude.
		Let's descent from our Helicon and challenge the missions and functions of museums before it is too late.
	www.rwa.ahk.nl /03_onderzoek_ontwikkeling/03_publicaties/13_1996/magpies.jsp (1944 words)

	W.M. Leake, Travels in Northern Greece Vol. II, chapter 20-1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		YRIAKI is a village of 30 families belonging to the district of Livadhía, situated on the north-western side of Mount Tzivri in a small hollow cultivated chiefly with vines, and surrounded closely on all sides by fir-clad summits of the Heliconian range.
		The torrent of Kyriáki is joined at that extremity of the hill by another which comes from the neighbourhood of Zeríki; and which, after having received several tributaries in the valley of Stíri, flows along the northern side of Paleá khora.
		Opposite to the latter, on the eastern side of the gulf, is seen Cape Punda, which is the extremity of Mount Verseníko; beyond it are the inlet and port called Aghiá, and then the rugged falls of the same mountain extending to the place where I quitted the coast coming from Dobó.
	esf.niwi.knaw.nl /esf1996/leake/html/ch20_1.htm (2196 words)

	PEGASUS
		Pegasus was connected to the Muses because he opened their fountain, (Hippocrene) on Mt. Helicon.
		Helicon is the spiral or energy which rises through the spine in Meditation.
		The fact that Pegasus stimulates this activity is extremely important because this is the time of Pegasus as fulfilled by the discovery in Switzerland where two scientists for the first time discovered a planet orbiting a sun that was a twin of ours.
	www.hiddenmeanings.com /pegasus.html (1742 words)

	Bugkid.com - Pegasus Pics
		Pegasus was a wild and winged steed who was ultimately tamed by Bellerophon by using a golden bridle he received in a dream from Athena.
		Bellerophon showed disrespect to the Gods as he attempted to ride Pegasus to Mount Olympus and Zeus sent an insect to sting Pegasus and Bellerophon was thrown back.
		Pegasus became a popular subject for artists, since from under his feet sprang the sacred springs of the Muses (goddesses of inspiration) on Mount Helicon.
	www.bugkid.com /pegasus/page2.html (99 words)

	Hungarian Helicon Society - About
		The Hungarian Helicon Society is a volunteer organization created by Hungarian Canadians to promote Hungarian culture, history and heritage in Toronto.
		On the slopes of Mount Helicon in ancient Greece dwelt Apollo, the god of fine arts, music, poetry and eloquence.
		Many organizations, whose aim was to preserve and to promote the heritage of their country, have over the centuries borne the name Helicon.
	www.heliconsociety.com /about.html (472 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Meanwhile Rhea had her baby taken to Crete, and there, in a cave on Mount Dicte, the divine goat Amaltheia suckled and raised the infant Zeus.
		The three separate assaults were from the offspring of Gaia: they were the Gigantes, Typhon (Zeus fought them with his thunder-bolt and aegis) and the twin brothers who were called the Aloadae.
		The latter tried to gain access to the heavens by stacking Mount Ossa on top of Mount Olympus, and Mount Pelion on top of Mount Ossa, but the twins still failed in their attempt to overthrow Zeus.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /mcl/faculty/behr/women06hesiod.htm (1155 words)

	CROTUS : Satyr of Mount Helicon ; Greek mythology ; zodiac Saggitarius : KROTOS
		KROTOS (Crotus) was a rustic spirit or satyr who consorted with the goddess Mousai on Mount Helikon.
		He was a great hunter and, according to some, the inventor of the hunting bow and the rhythmic beat which accompanied music.
		As Sositheus, writer of tragedies [C3rd BC], says, he had his home on Mount Helicon and took his pleasure in the company of the Musae, sometimes even following the pursuit of hunting.
	www.theoi.com /Georgikos/SatyrosKrotos.html (334 words)

	Pegasus - Wikipedia
		There are varying tales as to how Bellerophon found Pegasus, some say that the hero found him drinking at the Pirenean spring, others that either Athene or Poseidon brought him to Bellerophon.
		Two springs were supposedly created when Pegasus's hoof struck the earth; one on Mount Helicon at the behest of Poseidon to prevent the mountain swelling too much and another at Troezen.
		Pegasus was eventually turned into a constellation (see above), but a single feather fell to the earth near the city of Tarsus (hence its name).
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pegasus (289 words)

	Helicon, Mount -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Modern Greek Óros Elikón mountain of the Helicon range in Boeotia, Greece, between Límni (lake) Kopaí¨s and the Gulf of Corinth.
		A continuation of the Parnassus range, which rises to about 8,000 ft (2,400 m), the Helicon range reaches only about 5,000 ft. The mountain was celebrated in classical literature as the favourite haunt of the Muses, and its eastern, or Boeotian, side was particularly sacred.
		Its foothills are the Himalayas, to the south of which extends Bharatavarsha (Land of the Sons of Bharata), the ancient name for India.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9039881 (653 words)

	Boiotia
		Whether considering the myths of Mount Helicon, the works of Hesiod and Plutarch, or the political might of Thebes, this region has much to boast of.
		I begin my song with the Heliconian Muses; they have made Helicon, the great god-haunted mountain, their domain; their soft feet move in the dance that rings the violet-dark spring and the altar of mighty Zeus.
		Nestled among roving hills stretched east from Mount Helicon is found the town of Thespiae.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Places/Place/871925 (794 words)

	Pegasus - Flight of Imagination
		Compliant, Pegasus, who has become accustomed to humans riding him, allows you to mount and, no sooner are you seated than he spreads his glorious wings and soars, like a spirit god, towards the heavens.
		In ancient Greece, the Hippocrene was a spring on Mt. Helicon around which the muses would dance to find poetic inspiration.
		Located at the foot of Mount Helicon in Boeotia these springs flow into the Parnassus.
	www.dailywriting.net /Pegasus.htm (853 words)

	cars - Pegasus
		The word Pegasos is derived from the Greek for the word spring, and everywhere the winged horse struck hoof to earth, an inspiring spring burst forth: one on Mount Helicon, the Hippocrene ("horse spring"), at the behest of Poseidon to prevent the mountain swelling too much and another at Troezen.
		Mounted on Pegasus, and with the Gorgon's head safely in his magical bag, Perseus was completed as a hero, and was ready to win Andromeda.
		There are varying tales as to how Bellerophon found Pegasus, some say that the hero found him drinking at the Pierian spring and that Polyidus told Bellerophon how to find and tame him, others that either Athena or Poseidon brought him to Bellerophon.
	www.carluvers.com /cars/Pegasus (313 words)

	Sannion's Sanctuary - The Muses in Mythology
		On Mount Helicon, a rustic farmer named Hesiod was tending his sheep when some Nymphs who presided over a nearby oracular spring approached him, and "taught him a glorious song." (Theogony 22-23) These Nymphs - called Muses - were the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, and Hesiod tells us that they were nine in number.
		The most famous of these springs were Castalia, at the foot of Mount Parnassus, Aganippe and Hippocrene on Mount Helicon, and springs near the towns of Ascara and Thespiae.
		Their fame grew, and soon they were being honored in the schools of Athens, and in Sparta, where they inspired songs of battle.
	www.winterscapes.com /sannion/muses.htm (1363 words)

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