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'''Helicon''' is the name of a mountain in the region of [[Thespiai]] in [[Boeotia]], [[Greece]] (Kerenyi 1951 p 172), made famous in [[Greek mythology]] because two springs sacred to the [[Muses]] were located here: the [[Aganippe]] and the [[Hippocrene]]. In the late 7th century BC, the poet [[Hesiod]] sang how in his youth he had pastured his sheep on the slopes of Helicon (''Theogony'', 23), where [[Eros]] and the Muses already had sanctuaries and a dancing-ground near the summit. where "their pounding feet awaken desire" (Hesiod, 8). There the Muses inspired him and he began to sing of the origins of the gods, Thus Helicon became an [[emblem]] of poetical inspiration. Hesiod mentions other springs that were the haunt of the Muses: "They bathe their lithe bodies in the water of Permessos or of Hippocrene or of god-haunted Olmeios". On Helicon too was the spring where [[Narcissus]] was inspired by his own beauty.

Helicon was the inspiration for the balls held by Hungarian composer Leó Festetics at his castle near Keszthely. Festetics also named the library he founded Helikon Library, promoting literacy and culture in his home city.

==Reference==
*Kerenyi, Karl, 1951. ''The Gods of the Greeks''

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−	'''Helicon''' is the name of a mountain in the region of [[Thespiai]] in [[Boeotia]], [[Greece]] (Kerenyi 1951 p 172), made famous in [[Greek mythology]] because two springs sacred to the [[Muses]] were located here: the [[Aganippe]] and the [[Hippocrene]]. In the late 7th century BC, the poet [[Hesiod]] sang how in his youth he had pastured his sheep on the slopes of Helicon (''Theogony'', 23), where [[Eros]] and the Muses already had sanctuaries and a dancing-ground near the summit. where "their pounding feet awaken desire" (Hesiod, 8). There the Muses inspired him and he began to sing of the origins of the gods, Thus Helicon became an emblem of poetical inspiration. Hesiod mentions other springs that were the haunt of the Muses: "They bathe their lithe bodies in the water of Permessos or of Hippocrene or of god-haunted Olmeios". On Helicon too was the spring where [[Narcissus]] was inspired by his own beauty.	+	'''Helicon''' is the name of a mountain in the region of [[Thespiai]] in [[Boeotia]], [[Greece]] (Kerenyi 1951 p 172), made famous in [[Greek mythology]] because two springs sacred to the [[Muses]] were located here: the [[Aganippe]] and the [[Hippocrene]]. In the late 7th century BC, the poet [[Hesiod]] sang how in his youth he had pastured his sheep on the slopes of Helicon (''Theogony'', 23), where [[Eros]] and the Muses already had sanctuaries and a dancing-ground near the summit. where "their pounding feet awaken desire" (Hesiod, 8). There the Muses inspired him and he began to sing of the origins of the gods, Thus Helicon became an emblem of poetical inspiration. Hesiod mentions other springs that were the haunt of the Muses: "They bathe their lithe bodies in the water of Permessos or of Hippocrene or of [[Haunted Places in Greece\|god-haunted]] Olmeios". On Helicon too was the spring where [[Narcissus]] was inspired by his own beauty.

	Helicon was the inspiration for the balls held by Hungarian composer Leó Festetics at his castle near Keszthely. Festetics also named the library he founded Helikon Library, promoting literacy and culture in his home city.		Helicon was the inspiration for the balls held by Hungarian composer Leó Festetics at his castle near Keszthely. Festetics also named the library he founded Helikon Library, promoting literacy and culture in his home city.

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−	'''Helicon''' is the name of a mountain in the region of [[Thespiai]] in [[Boeotia]], [[Greece]] (Kerenyi 1951 p 172), made famous in [[Greek mythology]] because two springs sacred to the [[Muses]] were located here: the [[Aganippe]] and the [[Hippocrene]]. In the late 7th century BC, the poet [[Hesiod]] sang how in his youth he had pastured his sheep on the slopes of Helicon (''Theogony'', 23), where [[Eros]] and the Muses already had sanctuaries and a dancing-ground near the summit. where "their pounding feet awaken desire" (Hesiod, 8). There the Muses inspired him and he began to sing of the origins of the gods, Thus Helicon became an [[emblem]] of poetical inspiration. Hesiod mentions other springs that were the haunt of the Muses: "They bathe their lithe bodies in the water of Permessos or of Hippocrene or of god-haunted Olmeios". On Helicon too was the spring where [[Narcissus]] was inspired by his own beauty.	+	'''Helicon''' is the name of a mountain in the region of [[Thespiai]] in [[Boeotia]], [[Greece]] (Kerenyi 1951 p 172), made famous in [[Greek mythology]] because two springs sacred to the [[Muses]] were located here: the [[Aganippe]] and the [[Hippocrene]]. In the late 7th century BC, the poet [[Hesiod]] sang how in his youth he had pastured his sheep on the slopes of Helicon (''Theogony'', 23), where [[Eros]] and the Muses already had sanctuaries and a dancing-ground near the summit. where "their pounding feet awaken desire" (Hesiod, 8). There the Muses inspired him and he began to sing of the origins of the gods, Thus Helicon became an emblem of poetical inspiration. Hesiod mentions other springs that were the haunt of the Muses: "They bathe their lithe bodies in the water of Permessos or of Hippocrene or of god-haunted Olmeios". On Helicon too was the spring where [[Narcissus]] was inspired by his own beauty.

	Helicon was the inspiration for the balls held by Hungarian composer Leó Festetics at his castle near Keszthely. Festetics also named the library he founded Helikon Library, promoting literacy and culture in his home city.		Helicon was the inspiration for the balls held by Hungarian composer Leó Festetics at his castle near Keszthely. Festetics also named the library he founded Helikon Library, promoting literacy and culture in his home city.