M i n e r v a a s
t h e H e a d o f t h e
M u s e s
Minerva as the Head of the Muses
by Hans Speckaert (c. 1575)
Minerva's Interview with the Muses
Then one replies: O Goddess,
fit to guide
Our humble works, and in our choir preside,
Who sure wou'd wisely to these fields repair,
To taste our pleasures, and our labours share,
Were not your virtue, and superior mind
To higher arts, and nobler deeds inclin'd;
Metamorphoses
Except from "Book the Fifth"
translated by Sir Samuel Garth
Ovid (1 C.E.)
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