Many Greek & Latin epic poems open with an invocation to one of these goddesses
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Homer begins with a one-paragraph invocation requesting the Muse (a goddess) 
to... [DOC] [TLE] Milton's inheritance - Darkness Visible [PAR] A rather often stated paradox about Milton is that, in creating one of the most ... 
Homer, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer and Spenser (amongst many others) all opened 
their epic poems with prayers for help from the Greek Muses, the goddesses who 
... of Christianity read anachronistically into these pagan invocations, Milton here
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Lucan (AD 39-65) wrote an