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> I forwarded this to my wife, Ann Mintz, and got this back from her.
Clifford Wagner

>   The muses were among the daughters of Zeus.  Ironically, though,  
> none of them related to the visual arts.  There were several for  
> poetry (love poetry, sacred poetry),  muses for history, astronomy,  
> dance,  comedy and tragedy and memory, I think.  I can't remember what  
> the ninth muse was.  But no visual art.  The Greeks thought of  
> sculpture and painting as crafts, not art.
>
> Ann

On May 25, 2005, at 2:47 PM, Amanda Chesworth wrote:

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> What is the Daily Buzzword?
>   museum  \myoo-ZEE-um\  noun
>
> What does it mean?
>   : a building or part of a building in which objects of
> interest in one or more of the arts or sciences are displayed
>
> How do you use it?
>   "Likewise, I have heard that in the museum of Manchester, in
> New Hampshire, they have what the proprietors call the only
> perfect specimen of a Greenland or River Whale in the United
> States." (Herman Melville, _Moby Dick_)
>
> Are you a word wiz?
>   The origin of the word "museum" traces back to a mythological
> name. Which of the following do you think had the name that
> played a part in the formation of the word "museum"?
>
>   A. a mythical storehouse of gold in Peru
>   B. a goddess of the arts in Greek myth
>   C. a hero of great wisdom in Cherokee legend
>   D. a palace filled with treasures in Chinese folklore
>
> Answer:
>   Answer B is the only authentic specimen in the collection.
> "Museum" traces to the Latin word "Museum," meaning "place
> for learned occupation." Speakers of Latin created "Museum"
> from the Greek word "Mouseion," which means "seat of the
> Muses" and which was itself created from "Mousa," the Greek
> word for any of the nine sister goddesses of song and poetry
> and the arts and sciences. (In English they are called "the
> Muses.") Because of their association with the arts and
> sciences, the goddesses' name was used to refer to ancient
> centers of learning, in particular the Museum of Alexandria
> in Egypt.
>
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