From the Heliconian Muses let us begin to sing,
who hold the great and holy mount of Helicon,
and dance on soft feet about the deep-blue spring
and the altar of the almighty son of Cronos,
and when they have washed their tender bodies
in Permessus or in the Horse's Spring or Olmeius,
make their fair, lovely dances upon highest Helicon
and move with vigorous feet. Thence they arise
and go abroad by night, veiled in thick mist,
and utter their song with lovely voice,
praising Zeus the aegis- holder
and queenly Hera of Argos who walks on golden sandals
and the daughter of Zeus the aegis-holder bright-eyed Athene,
and Phoebus Apollo, and Artemis who delights in arrows,
and Poseidon the earth-holder who shakes the earth,
and reverend Themis and quick-glancing Aphrodite,
and ********* with the crown of gold,
and fair Dione, Leto, Iapetus,
and Cronos the crafty counsellor, Eos and great Helius
and bright Selene, Earth too, and great Oceanus,
and dark Night, and the holy race of all the other deathless ones that are for ever.
- THEOGONY - HESIOD
