Muse

The word muse is used figuratively to denote someone who inspires an artist. They are working on a greatest hits album as their first compilation that is currently untitled, they'll release it sometime in 2005 and they might be working on their 8th album that will be released probably late in the same year. The poet Sappho of Lesbos was also paid the very great compliment of being called "the tenth Muse". Their latest is Splinter. One side-effect of this movement was the use of the word "museum" (originally, "cult place of the Muses") to refer to a place for the public display of knowledge. Although Smash was the album that originally brought The Offspring into commercial success and wide recognition, it was the release of "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)" from the 1998 album Americana which established the band as a regular feature on MTV and established The Offspring as a regular chart presence. nine Muses), and was attended by Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin. Songs like "Jennifer Lost The War" and "Kill The President" on The Offspring, "L.A.P.D" on Ignition, "It'll Be A Long Time" and "Not the One" on Smash, and "Meaning Of Life" and "Change the World" on Ixnay On The Hombre, communicated the band's general position on social and political issues (though the band has not been known to be outspoken or active politically, especially by punk standards).

A popular Masonic lodge in pre-Revolutionary Paris was called Neuf Soeurs ("nine sisters", i.e. On each album, The Offspring always tend to have a couple of songs based on social/political subject matter, a testament to their punk roots. Many Enlightenment figures sought to re-establish a "Cult of the Muses" in the 18th century. The commercial success of this record was somewhat disappointing, only going on to sell four million copies. The Library of Alexandria and its circle of scholars were formed around a mousaion ("museum" or shrine of the Muses) close by the tomb of Alexander the Great. They released their follow up to Smash in 1997, entitled Ixnay on the Hombre. Muse-worship was also often associated with the hero-cults of poets: the tombs of Archilochus on Thasos and Hesiod and Thamyris (whom they blinded) in Boeotia all played host to festivals in which poetic recitations were accompanied by sacrifices to the Muses. Many punk rock purists criticized this decision, feeling that The Offspring jumped from an independent to a major label, solely for financial gain.

The Muses were especially venerated in Boeotia, near Helicon, and in Delphi and the Parnassus, where Apollo became known as Mousagetes "Muse-leader". In 1996, The Offspring jumped ship from Epitaph and signed with Columbia Records. The Muses were also occasionally referred to as Corycides or Corycian nymphs after a cave on Mount Parnassos called the Corycian Cave. It was 1994's Smash that brought Offspring into the mainstream; that album sold over eleven million copies worldwide. Other fountains, called Hippocrene and Pirene were also important to the Muses. Although their first album, The Offspring, was very similar to late 1980s punk, the next album, Ignition, saw them move away from more traditional punk, heading into the punk of the mid-1990s with songs like "Dirty Magic". They were sometimes called Aganippids because of their association with a fountain called Aganippe. Atom Willard was in Rocket From The Crypt for ten years and more recently played with Moth, the Alkaline Trio and Melissa Auf Der Maur.

Local cults of the Muses were often associated with springs or fountains. On March 18, 2003, Ron Welty left The Offspring to devote all his energies on a new band "Steady Ground". The Offspring held hundreds of auditions for a new drummer, finally deciding to announce Atom Willard as the new drummer. When Pythagoras arrived at Croton, his first advice to the Crotoniates was to build a shrine of the Muses at the center of the city, to promote civic harmony and learning. and Ron Welty on drums (pre 2003) replaced by Atom Willard on drums (post 2003). And Dante Alighieri, in Canto II of The Inferno:. The Offspring are a popular American punk rock band consisting of vocalist and guitarist Dexter Holland, Kevin 'Noodles' Wasserman (also on guitar), bassist Greg K. .. "Americana" (The DVD), 1999.

Two classic examples: Homer, Book I of The Odyssey:. "Huck It", 2000. Originally the invocation of the Muse was an indication that the speaker was working inside the poetic tradition, according to the established formulae. "(Can't Get My) Head Around You", 2004. They have served as aid to an author, or as the true speaker for which an author is only a mouthpiece. "Hit That", 2003. The muses are typically invoked at or near the beginning of an epic poem or story. "Defy You" (from Orange County), 2002.

They blinded Thamyris for his hubris in challenging them to a contest. "Want You Bad", 2001. They also gathered the pieces of the dead body of Orpheus, son of Calliope, and buried them. "Million Miles Away", 2001. The Muses judged the contest between Apollo and Marsyas. "One Fine Day", 2000. Solon sought to perpetuate his political reforms by establishing recitations of his poetry—complete with invocations to his practical-minded Muses—by Athenian boys at festivals every year. "Original Prankster", 2000.

For poet and lawgiver Solon (fragment 13), the Muses were the key to the good life, since they brought both prosperity and friendship. "She's Got Issues", 1999. Herodotus, whose primary medium of delivery was public recitation, named each one of the nine books of his Histories after a different Muse. "The Kids Aren't Alright", 1999. In the archaic period, before the widespread availability of books, this included nearly all of learning: the first Greek book on astronomy, by Thales, was set in dactylic hexameter, as were many works of pre-Socratic philosophy; both Plato and the Pythagoreans explicitly included philosophy as a sub-species of mousike (Strabo 10.3.10). "Why Don't You Get A Job", 1999. The Muses were therefore both the embodiments and sponsors of performed metrical speech: mousike, whence "music", was the art of the Muses. "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)", 1999.

The word is probably derived from the Indo-European root *men-, which is also the source of Greek Mnemosyne, Latin Minerva, and English "mind", "mental" and "memory". "I Choose", 1997. In Pindar, to "carry a mousa" is "to sing a song". "Meaning Of Life", 1997. Greek mousa is a common noun as well as a type of goddess: it literally means "song" or "poem". "Gone Away", 1997. In Roman, Renaissance and Neoclassical art, Muses depicted in sculptures or paintings are often distinguished by certain props or poses, as emblems. Euterpe (music) carries a flute; Calliope (epic poetry) carries a writing tablet; Clio (history) carries a scroll and books; Erato (lyric poetry) is often seen with a lyre and a crown of roses; Melpomene (tragedy) is often seen with a tragic mask; Polyhymnia (sacred poetry) is often seen with a pensive expression; Terpsichore (dancing) is often seen dancing and carrying a lyre; Thalia (comedy) is often seen with a comic mask; and Urania (astronomy) carries a staff pointed at a celestial globe. "All I Want", 1997.

However, the association of specific muses with specific art forms is a later innovation, and has been called pedantic. "Smash It Up" (from Batman Forever), 1995. Together, they form a complete picture of the subjects proper to poetic art in the archaic period. "Bad Habit", 1995. The canonical nine Muses are:. "Gotta Get Away", 1995. Together, they form the complete picture of the preconditions of poetic art in cult practice. "Come Out And Play", 1994.

9.29.1). "Self Esteem", 1994. According to Pausanias there were three original Muses: Aoide ("song", "voice"), Melete ("practice" or "occasion") and Mneme ("memory") (Paus. "I'll Be Waiting/Blackball", 1987. Compare the Roman inspiring nymphs of springs, the Camenae. "Baghdad", 1991. For Alcman and Mimnermus, they were even more primordial, springing from Uranus and Gaia.

According to Hesiod's Theogony, they are the daughters of Zeus, king of the gods, and Mnemosyne, goddess of memory. The Olympian system set Apollo as their leader, Apollon Mousagetes.. They were water nymphs, associated with the springs of Helicon and Pieris. In Greek mythology, the Muses (Greek Μουσαι, Mousai) are nine archaic goddesses who embody the right evocation of myth, inspired through remembered and improvised song and traditional music and dances.

Urania (astronomy). Thalia (comedy). Terpsichore (dancing). Polyhymnia (sacred poetry).

Melpomene (tragedy). Erato (lyric poetry). Clio (history). Calliope (epic poetry).

Euterpe (music).