Muses In Popular Culture
The nine Muses of Greek mythology have been portrayed in many different modern fictional works. They are also the inspiration for an all-female Mardi Gras krewe in New Orleans, Louisiana that parades the Thursday before Mardi Gras, on what was traditionally called Momus Thursday, along the traditional Uptown route. Along the way, they cross streets bearing the names of each of the nine Muses.
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Famous quotes containing the words muses in, muses, popular and/or culture:
“The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
“One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox—the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.”
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“The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)