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- ↑ Chesterfield, Lord (1746). Letters to His Son. London: Everyman Classics. p. 15. ISBN 0460118234.
- ↑ Orpheus and Greek Religion (Mythos Books) by William Keith Guthrie and L. Alderlink, 1993, ISBN 0-691-02499-5, page 62
- ↑ Classical Mythology in Literature, Art, and Music (Focus Texts: For Classical Language Study) by Philip Mayerson, 2001, page 82: "... the Muses who were said to have frolicked about the Pierian springs soon after their birth. The Castalian spring on Mount Parnassus ..."
- ↑ E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2,Πιερίας—between Mount Olympus and the Thermaic Gulf, the original home of the muses and birth-place of Orpheus.
- ↑ http://www.theoi.com/Text/OvidMetamorphoses5.html#6, [662] Project Gutenberg's The Satyricon
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- ↑ Satyricon of Petronius, from the 1st century AD, at the end of section 5
- ↑ (Available online *) Satyricon of Petronius, from the 1st century AD, at the end of section 5
- ↑ "The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk by Dorothy Parker".
