"Menippe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that both Orpheus, and Amphion, were from their country. There is great uncertainty about his parents. He is generally supposed to have been the son of Oeagrus, and Calliope: but Asclepiades made him the son of Apollo, by that [1026]Goddess. By some his mother was said to have been Menippe; by others [1027]Polymnia. He is also mentioned as the son of [1028]Thamyras. Plato differs from them all, and styles both Orpheus, and Musaeus, [1029][Greek: Selenes kai Mouson engonoi], the offspring of the Moon, and the Muses: in which account is contained ...
— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) • Jacob Bryant |
