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Later in the text, he describes a meeting between himself and the Muses on Mount
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stumbles upon Athena bathing and is blinded but at the same time given the art of prophecy, by which means poetry and prophecy are implicitly connected to each other. Perhaps reflecting this account, the Roman poet
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recounts his dream in which he was young once more and conversed with the Muses on
Helicon. and thus follows explicitly in the footsteps of Hesiod. He also placed on Helicon the episode in which
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The poetical image of
Helicon established by the Roman poets became once more an emblem of cultural inspiration with the Renaissance and is often referred to in poetry. The Hungarian composer
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of poetical inspiration. (It is not clear, if the other names mentioned – Permessus and
Olmeius – are different springs or other names for Hippocrene.) In the
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Helicon has been noticed by Richard Hunter: "The presence of Homer would spoil the party, for the tendency to see these as rival figures for supremacy in
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Helicon and the Hippocrene spring were considered to be a source of poetic inspiration. In the late seventh century BCE, the poet
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aimed his hoof at a rock, striking it with such force that the spring burst from the spot. On Mount
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may be an oblique reference to the
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wrote a poem entitled “Personal
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It was such a familiar touch that a humorous reference to
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which Hesiod won at a contest in Chalcis in Euboea was still on view at Helicon in Pausanias' day.
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in 1977, with a song "Helicon" containing the lyric "Take me to Helicon, I want to write my song"
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mentioned the waters from Mount Helicon in the poem, “Where There's a Will There's a Way.”
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1–8, ed. and commented by Richard S. Caldwell, Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company, 1987.
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as a river started from it was called also Helikon.
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