Hey, I note the reference to The Sandman in the wikipedia article, &
it's true, Gaiman has a terrific story about the capture & rape of one
of the muses in one of the many short stories scattered throughout the
10 volumes of that great graphic fiction....
Doug
On 12-Jan-06, at 1:59 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> The locus classicus I should think would be Hesiod's Theogony.
>
> A nice article, as far as it goes, at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muse.
>
> As to Graves, he gets better and better the less you read him. For a
> start, I can think of a few other reasons why people fortunate enough
> not to die of wars and disease stop writing poetry, and no great loss,
> usually.
>
> And he seems to have missed the boat on In Memoriam.
>
> Mark
>
>
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