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music lulls humans to laziness or whether the humans can resist their sweet song. Cicadas were once humans who, in ancient times, allowed the first Muses to enchant them into singing and dancing for so long they stopped eating and sleeping and died without noticing. The Muses rewarded them with the gift of never needing food or sleep, and of singing from birth to death. The task of the
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Socrates states that some of life's greatest blessings flow from mania, specifically in the four kinds of mania: (1) prophetic; (2) poetic; (3) cathartic; and (4) erotic. It is in this context that Socrates' Myth of the Cicadas is presented. The Cicadas chirp and watch to see whether their
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player and singer, was performing in a competition when one of the cithara strings snaps. A cicada as offering,
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aspect and propensity to incite admiration pre-date
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302:Cicada in Ancient Greece
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61:Eunomos and his cithara
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227:Aristotle,
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