Lastly, his Mouseion ( a word invoking the Muses ) seems to have contained the narrative of the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, of which the version that has survived is the work of a grammarian in the time of Hadrian, based on Alcidamas.

" The Mouseion is also part of the palaces, possessing a peripatos and exedra and large oikos, in which the common table of the philologoi, men who are members of the Mouseion, is located.

The Mouseion featured a roofed walkway, an arcade of seats, and a communal dining room where scholars routinely ate and shared ideas.

As Theon, the distinguished mathematician and father of Hypatia, herself a renowned scholar, was the last recorded scholar-member ( c. 380 ), it is likely that the Mouseion did not long survive the promulgation of Theodosius ' decree in 391 to destroy all pagan temples in the city .|

It is originally from the Greek Μουσεῖον ( Mouseion ), which denotes a place or temple dedicated to the Muses ( the patron divinities in Greek mythology of the arts ), and hence a building set apart for study and the arts, especially the Musæum ( institute ) for philosophy and research at Alexandria by Ptolemy I Soter about 280 BCE.

The biographical tradition of the tenth century Byzantine ( Suda ) defines Theon as " the man from the Mouseion "; however, both the Library of Alexandria and the Mouseion may not have existed in the fourth century as Ammianus Marcellinus ( Historia 22. 15, 12-13 ), writing in 378 refers to the Serapeum Library as thing of the past, destroyed in the time of Julius Caesar.

The Musaeum or Mouseion at Alexandria ( Classical Greek ), which included the famous Library of Alexandria, was an institution founded, according to Johannes Tzetzes, by Ptolemy I Soter or, perhaps more likely, by Ptolemy II Philadelphus at Hellenistic Alexandria in Egypt.

405 ), father of Hypatia, is described in the tenth century Suda as " the man from the Mouseion.

Ephorus made Homer a younger cousin of Hesiod, Herodotus ( Histories, 2. 53 ) evidently considered them near-contemporaries, and the 4th century BC sophist Alcidamas in his work Mouseion even brought them together for an imagined poetic agon, which survives today as the Contest of Homer and Hesiod.

The example that guided the founders in establishing Teylers Museum was the Mouseion of classical antiquity: a “ temple for the muses of the arts and sciences ” that could also serve as a meeting place for scholars and the venue for various collections.

This hypothesis of the contents of the Mouseion, originally suggested by Nietzsche ( Rheinisches Museum 25 ( 1870 ) & 28 ( 1873 )), appears to have been confirmed by three papyrus finds – one 3rd century BC ( Flinders Petrie Papyri, ed.

at the end of the fourth century, saw the Mouseion and described the images of the philosophers in it.

* Flames destroy the great Library of Alexandria, established in the Mouseion in the fourth century BCE.

The hill was called Mouseion after Mousaious, a man who used to sing on the hill and died there of old age and was subsequently buried there as well.

According to Strabo, Demetrius inspired the creation of the Mouseion, better known as the Library of Alexandria, which was modeled after the arrangement of Aristotle's school.

An article by James Jope in the journal Mouseion ( 2005 ) compares the translations by Hine and Peyrefitte and discusses how the poems can be reshaped in a modern context.

* James Jope, ' Translating Strato: The role of translations in the Study of Ancient Sexuality and the Understanding of Classical Erotica ', Mouseion, Series III vol.

The Mouseion remained supported by the patronage of the royal family of the Ptolemies.

Such a Greek Mouseion was the home of music or poetry, a philosophical school and library such as Plato's Academy, also a storehouse of texts.

Mouseion, connoting an assemblage gathered together under the protection of the Muses, was the title given to a collection of stories about the esteemed writers of the past assembled by Alcidamas, an Athenian sophist of the fourth century BCE.

This synodos has property in common and a priest in charge of the Mouseion, formerly appointed by the kings, but now by Caesar.

Also a new granary covered with oak shingles, and a building in which the dairy is contained, though it is divided.

Grounds covered with gravel also provided early notice of unwanted intruders, and segregated buildings allowed fires to be better contained.

Jars covered with cheesecloth contained no flies.

The Barry Douglas Lamb album " Ludi Funebres " had the cassette box buried in some earth contained in a larger outer tin and covered in leaves.

This village had an unusual feature: one house under the West Court contained eight rooms and covered.

The so-called " Brins Fire " covered on Brins Mesa, Wilson Mountain and in Oak Creek Canyon before the USDA Forest Service declared it 100 % contained on June 28.

Some of the Bicentennial music was later gathered together with other unreleased songs under the title Rough Mix 2 ", which covered material from 1972 to 1978, and which also contained " other projects which had been censored, rejected, or never heard for various other reasons ", was only released officially in April 2011.

Rather, it was a personal and " autobiographical album " that contained " a loose collection of songs written between 1956 and 1989 ... covered the years of ground between his childhood, career, divorce, and dysfunctional family life ", including several previously unreleased songs that focused on his family and his sense of home, which was distributed through Benson Records.

The gardens were opened in honour of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, and contained a large lake, which covered, and what can only be described as a small early version of a roller coaster, known as a switchback ( an alternative general term for a roller coaster ).

Aerial Ballet also contained Nilsson's version of his own composition, " One ", which was later taken to the top 5 of the US charts by Three Dog Night and also successfully covered in Australia by John Farnham.

This is why early Islamic coins were covered with Arabic writing, but contained no visual symbols.

In most gastropods this visceral hump is covered by, and contained within, the shell.

A rectangular pit contained the remains of at least 20 bears, covered by a massive stone slab.

The first volume, published in 1922, contained 76, 000 names and covered the period up to 1751.

** Padded leather, generally a flat wood base covered in padding and contained in soft leather

In Russia it was expanded and after several renovations, it covered more than 55 square meters and contained over six tons of amber.

After several other 18th-century renovations, it covered more than 55 square meters and contained over of amber.

Abū al-Qāsim's thirty-chapter medical treatise, Kitab al-Tasrif, completed in the year 1000, covered a broad range of medical topics, including dentistry and childbirth, which contained data that had accumulated during a career that spanned almost 50 years of training, teaching and practice.

It contained windows ( holes ) facing the moat area, which were visible as late as 1960's, but are completely covered now.

The main set room, which contained various displays and faux computer consols, helped to illustrate details of the subjects that were covered.

The centre of the synagogue originally contained a high wooden bimah, but this was later replaced with a flat platform covered with expensive marble plates.

It contained large stores of grain and military supplies and was covered by the river Aji.

Passing through the principal entrance, a, which is removed from the street by a narrow footway surrounding the building and after descending three steps, the bather finds a small chamber on his left ( x ) which contained a water closet ( latrina ), and proceeds into a covered portico ( g, g ), which ran round three sides of an open court ( atrium, A ).

Other notable covers include those by pop / rock duo They Might Be Giants on their 2001 Mink Car album, and Matt Bianco, who covered the song in 1985, reaching number 13 in the UK Singles Chart ( the single version was then included in their second eponymous album in 1986, while the respective CD edition of the album only contained its 12 " Dance Mix-both versions featured on the MC edition of the long playing work, depending upon the various countries ).