\u201cHesiod claims that he is inspired by the Muses, but, even if we believe his claim, he also tells us that the Muses themselves admit to \u2018knowing how to speak many lies that resemble the truth,\u2019 as well as the truth itself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014Robert Parker, On Greek Religion<\/em> (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011), 13-14\u2014citing the Theogany,<\/em> 26-28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cHesiod claims that he is inspired by the Muses, but, even if we believe his claim, he also tells us that the Muses themselves admit to \u2018knowing how to speak many lies that resemble the truth,\u2019 as well as the truth itself.\u201d \u2014Robert Parker, On Greek Religion (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011), 13-14\u2014citing the Theogany, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1035,1033,70,498,503,502,500,1032,499,501],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-ancient-greece","tag-antiquity","tag-books","tag-hesiod","tag-inspiration","tag-lies","tag-muses","tag-robert-parker","tag-theogany","tag-truth"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunlevy.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunlevy.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunlevy.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunlevy.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunlevy.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dunlevy.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/dunlevy.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunlevy.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunlevy.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunlevy.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}