the Muses are truly subversive. "Lovely"--a word often condemned for being sentimental--is repeated emphatically by the translator, the Oxford archaeologist Hugh G. Evelyn Wright. (More Indiana Jones than dusty academic, he was present with Lord Carnarvon at the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb and was one of the first to gaze upon the prince's mummy, wrapped within its golden sarcophagus.) Do we dismiss the "lovely dances" of the Muses as irrelevant to modern life or do we allow ourselves a moment of praise?
from Christopher Nield: The Epoch Times: The Antidote--Classic Poetry for Modern Life: A Reading from 'The Birth of the Gods' by Hesiod
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