[lit-ideas] The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Was: The Caryatides)
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 16:38:41 EDT
In a message dated 9/4/2004 3:28:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, goya@xxxxxxx
writes:
Although I usually don't get very far when I ask JLS the following=20=
question, I'll try once again=A0: what is the source for this=20
information? It seems to me patently false. The nine Muses (Calliope,=20
Clio, Euterpe, Terpsichore, Erato, Melpomene, Thalia, Polyhymnia,=20
Urania) were each the protectress of a different art
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Yep, I guess you're right. Else T. E. Lawrence's book would have been called
"The _nine_ pillars of wisdom" -- It's an odd development of Antiquity,
though, that the general name for the muses (as in 'musica') -- and not the
_karyatides_ -- was _one_ of the seven pillars of wisdom (the trivium [3] = the
quatrivium [4] = 7].
Interesting that there's musae other than sapientum (Japan's Banana,
Ecuador's Banana, etc).
Cheers,
JL
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