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    Mount Helicon (Ancient Greek: Ἑλικών; Greek: Ελικώνας) is a mountain in the region of Thespiai in Boeotia, Greece, celebrated in Greek mythology. With...
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  • former river in the Macedonian city Dion, mentioned in Greek mythology Mount Helicon, mountain in Boeotia, Greece "Helikon", an 1893 mansion designed by...
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    from Olympus. Pegasus is the creator of Hippocrene, the fountain on Mount Helicon. He was captured by the Greek hero Bellerophon, near the fountain Peirene...
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    second century AD, there were originally three Muses, worshipped on Mount Helicon in Boeotia: Aoide ('song' or 'tune'), Melete ('practice' or 'occasion')...
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    or male ancestor) in Ascra, a small piece of ground at the foot of Mount Helicon, occasioned lawsuits with his brother Perses, who seems, at first, to...
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    worshiped in the sanctuary of the Muses at Mount Helicon in Boeotia: The first to sacrifice on Helikon (Helicon) to the Mousai (Muses) and to call the mountain...
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    /hɪpəˈkriːniː/ (Greek: Ἵππου κρήνη or Ἱπποκρήνη or Ἱππουκρήνη) is a spring on Mount Helicon. It was sacred to the Muses and was said to have formed when the winged...
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    commanded by the low range of hills which run eastward from the foot of Mount Helicon to Thebes, near modern Thespies. During the Second Persian invasion...
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  • the Muses of Mount Helicon. A tripod, believed to be Hesiod's dedication-offering, was still being shown to tourists visiting Mount Helicon and its sacred...
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    in the west. The main mountain ranges of Boeotia are Mount Parnassus in the west, Mount Helicon in the southwest, Cithaeron in the south and Parnitha...
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