Musaeus Grammaticus

Musaeus Grammaticus (Ancient Greek: Μουσαῖος, Mousaios) probably belongs to the beginning of the 6th century AD, as his poetic style and metre are evidently modeled on those of Nonnus. He lived before Agathias (530–582) and has been identified with a correspondent of Procopius of Gaza. His poem (340 hexameter lines) on the story of Hero and Leander is considered the most beautiful of the age (editions by Franz Passow, 1810; Gottfried Heinrich Schäfer, 1825; Karl Dilthey, 1874; Hans Färber, Hero und Leander: Musaios und die weiteren antiken Zeugnisse, Greek and Latin texts with German translation, Munich: Heimeran, 1961). The little love-poem Alpheus and Arethusa (Palatine Anthology ix. 362) is also ascribed to Musaeus.¹²

References

• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Musaeus" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 43.
• Sikes, E.E., ed. (1920). Hero & Leander. London: Methuen. – English translation

Further reading

• "The Divine Poem of Musaeus: First of All Books Translated According to the Original". mlahanas.de. Translated by Chapman, George. 1616. Archived from the original on 1 June 2012. – Online English translation
• "Musaeus Grammaticus: Hero and Leander". remacle.org. – Greek text with parallel French translation

Notes

Footnotes

1. Chisholm 1911, p. 43. ↩

2. Sikes 1920, pp. 5–11. ↩