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  1. Musaeus of Athens ( Greek: Μουσαῖος, Mousaios) was a legendary polymath, philosopher, historian, prophet, seer, priest, poet, and musician, said to have been the founder of priestly poetry in Attica. He composed dedicatory and purificatory hymns and prose treatises, and oracular responses.

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  2. The monument was built on the same site where Mousaios or Musaeus, a 6th-century BC priestly poet and mystical seer, was held to have been buried. The location of this tomb, opposite the Acropolis and within formal boundaries of the city, shows the high position Philopappos had within Athenian society.

  3. Musaeus. A semimythological personage, to be classed with Olen, Orpheus, and Pamphus.He was regarded as the author of various poetical compositions, especially as connected with the mystic rites of Demeter at Eleusis, over which the legend represented him as presiding in the time of Heracles. 1 He was reputed to belong to the family of the Eumolpidae, being the son of Eumolpus and Selene. 2 In ...

  4. Musaeus. ( *Mousai=os ), literary. 1. A semimythological personage, to be classed with Olen, Orpheus, and Pamphus. He was regarded as the author of various poetical compositions, especially as connected with the mystic rites of Demeter at Eleusis, over which the legend represented him as presiding in the time of Heracles. ( Diod. 4.25 .)

  5. Musaeus of Athens (Greek: Μουσαῖος, Mousaios) was a legendary polymath, philosopher, historian, prophet, seer, priest, poet, and musician, said to have been the founder of priestly poetry in Attica. He composed dedicatory and purificatory hymns and prose treatises, and oracular responses.

  6. Other articles where Musaeus is discussed: Eumolpus: …son, father, or pupil of Musaeus, a mythical singer closely allied with Orpheus.