[Redbook4:36][19870712:1000]{The
Muses (1)}[12th
July 1987]
19870712.1000
The
Circles fitted to the Sistine Chapel ceiling place the Delphic Oracle
at Fragmentation/Creation; and on Mount Parnassus above Delphi, where
there was a sacred cave and spring, there bathed Apollo and
the Muses*.
If my classical education had been taken (by me) more thoroughly, I
wouldn't have needed Dorothy Sayers' footnote** to tell me this.
*{ref
[[Redbook4:44][19870712:1840b]{The Muses (2)}[12th
July 1987] ]p.44}
**[In
her translation of Dante's Hell/Purgatory/Paradise, presumably.]
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