The Gift of the Muses to Mankind

Muses,the Goddesses of Art and Science in Greek mythology

The Muses gave mankind a special kind of gift; the gift of talent and inspiration.

Blessed was the mortal whom the Muses happened to favor. On his birth, they would pour delicate dew on his tongue so that gentle words could come out of his mouth. All nations would then hang on his lips, respect him and treat him like a god, since only his decisions would result to justice and put an end to hassles.

It were the Muses who once blessed a shepherd named Hesiod with the gift of poetry, asking from him to rhapsodize the mankind's past and the future and praise the Muses like no other deity. Hesiod became one of the most significant writers of Ancient Greece and always remembered to refer to the Muses in a very comprehensive way

To anyone who was in mourning or falling into decay, the Muses would sympathize and sent out a singer to praise the glory of gods and mortals; immediately, the sad one would forget about his sorrow and would turn happy again by listening to the blessed sweet voice.