Editing Muses (section)

===In cults and modern museums===
[[File:Car of history.jpg|thumb|upright|The ''Car of History'', a [[chariot clock]] by Carlo Franzoni, 1819, depicting Clio (housed in the [[National Statuary Hall Collection]] of the [[United States Capitol]])]]
When [[Pythagoras]] arrived at [[Crotone|Croton]], his first advice to the Crotoniates was to build a shrine to the Muses at the center of the city, to promote civic harmony and learning. Local cults of the Muses often became associated with springs or with fountains. The Muses were sometimes called Aganippides, a name derived from the sacred spring [[Aganippe]] at the foot of [[Mount Helicon]], whose waters were believed to grant inspiration.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0064:entry=helicon-geo Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), Helicon]</ref> Other fountains, [[Hippocrene]] and [[Pirene (fountain)|Pirene]], were also important locations associated with the Muses. Some sources occasionally referred to the Muses as "Corycides" (or "Corycian [[nymph]]s") after a cave on [[Parnassos|Mount Parnassos]], called the [[Corycian Cave]]. [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] referred to the Muses by the surnames "Ardalides" or "Ardaliotides", because of a sanctuary to them at [[Troezen]] said to have been built by the mythical [[Ardalus]].

The Muses were venerated especially in [[Boeotia]], in the [[Valley of the Muses]] near [[Mount Helicon|Helicon]], and in [[Delphi]] and the [[Parnassus]], where Apollo became known as {{Lang|grc-latn|Mousēgetēs}} ('Muse-leader') after the sites were rededicated to his cult.

Often Muse-worship was associated with the [[Greek hero cult|hero-cults]] of poets: the tombs of [[Archilochus]] on [[Thasos]] and of [[Hesiod]] and [[Thamyris]] in [[Boeotia]] all played host to festivals in which poetic recitations accompanied sacrifices to the Muses. The [[Library of Alexandria]] and its circle of scholars formed around a {{Lang|grc-latn|mousaion}} (i.e., '[[museum]]' or shrine of the Muses) close to the tomb of [[Alexander the Great]]. Many [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] figures sought to re-establish a "Cult of the Muses" in the 18th century. A famous [[Freemasonry|Masonic]] lodge in pre-Revolutionary [[Paris, France|Paris]] was called [[Les Neuf Soeurs]] ('The Nine Sisters', that is, the Nine Muses); [[Voltaire]], [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Georges Danton|Danton]], and other influential Enlightenment figures attended it. As a side-effect of this movement the word ''museum'' (originally, 'cult place of the Muses') came to refer to a place for the public display of knowledge.

Museia (Μούσεια) was a festival dedicated to Muses which was held every fifth year on the lower slopes of [[Mount Helicon]] in [[Boeotia]]. There was also another festival which was called Museia, which was celebrated in schools.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0063%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DM%3Aentry+group%3D3%3Aentry%3Dmusea-cn A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), William Smith, LLD, William Wayte, G. E. Marindin, Ed., Museia]</ref>