ĭiodorus states (Book I.18) that Osiris first recruited the nine Muses, along with the satyrs, while passing through Aethiopia, before embarking on a tour of all Asia and Europe, teaching the arts of cultivation wherever he went.Īccording to Hesiod's account (c. Writers similarly disagree also concerning the number of the Muses for some say that there are three, and others that there are nine, but the number nine has prevailed since it rests upon the authority of the most distinguished men, such as Homer and Hesiod and others like them. In the first century BC, Diodorus Siculus cited Homer and Hesiod to the contrary, observing: In Thrace, a tradition of three original Muses persisted. Some ancient authorities regarded the Muses as of Thracian origin. The earliest known records of the Muses come from Boeotia ( Boeotian muses). Gustave Moreau: Hesiod and the Muse (1891)- Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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