IF YOU NEED A HOLIDAY MUSE, NOWHERE IS MORE INSPIRING THAN GREECE

Creative people often talk about needing a ‘muse’ to get their best ideas and inspire their greatest work. Travel agents and tour operators are no exception – the world is a big place, and they can’t see it all. If you’re looking to explore new holiday ideas there’s no better starting point than Greece.

THE NINE GREEK MUSES

Not everybody realises that ‘the Muses’, celebrated as the personifications of knowledge and the arts, especially poetry, literature, dance and music, were figures from Greek legend. In ancient times there were 9 of them, all daughters of the great God Zeus and Mnemosine – Goddess of Memory and Poem. They presented themselves to mortals as water nymphs.

INSPIRATION WAS THE FAMILY BUSINESS

Whilst today we are more likely to come across them in words like ‘museum’ or ‘music’, and so too ‘amusement’, back in antiquity being a Muse was a family business. The sister that is probably most probably talked about in common parlance these days is Terpsichore who is the Muse of dance. But in Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Taalia and Uranus, we Greeks can tick the inspiration boxes from history, through rhetoric and comedy, to theatre and poetry.

SITES AND SIGHTS THAT WILL INSPIRE YOU

Throughout Greece and her islands sites and sights of antiquity yet celebrate the nine sisters. Indeed the famous theatre at Epidaurus on the Peloponnese still stages plays, dance, and every year holds a festival. The theatre can seat up to 15,000 in the audience. The acoustics are perfect and it is such an inspiring atmosphere that the main stage is a favourite place for suitors to propose marriage to a hoped-for intended high in the terraced seating.

NEED IDEAS? LET US DO THE HEAVY LIFTING

Just like the nine Muses we’re a family business that has been providing travel, cultural, and holiday ideas for 75 years. We can organise anything and everything you need around a Greek holiday. Give us a call and we’ll give you all the ideas you need.

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