Helikōn

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Helikōn is the Latinized transliteration of the name of Mount Helicon, a mountain in Greece famed in Greek mythology as a home of the Muses and a symbol of poetic inspiration.

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Helikōn canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf mountain
mythologicalLocation
symbol
country Greece
culture Ancient Greek religion
Greek mythology
elevation approximately 1749 meters
famedFor association with the Muses
poetic inspiration
springs sacred to the Muses
hasAssociation Apollo
Muses
linked to: the Muses

dance
music
poetry
hasEtymology derived from Ancient Greek Ἑλικών (Helikōn)
hasLatinizedForm Helicon
linked to: Helikon
hasModernName Mount Helicon
hasMythologicalFeature spring Aganippe
spring Hippocrene
hasOriginalName Ἑλικών
hasRoleIn cult of the Muses
myths of poetic inspiration
hasSymbolicMeaning artistic creativity
literary inspiration
poetic inspiration
hasTransliterationType Latinized transliteration
inspired Hellenistic poets
Roman poets
is home of the Muses in Greek mythology
symbol of poetic inspiration in Western literature
languageOfName Latin
locatedIn Boeotia
Greece
mentionedIn Hesiod’s Theogony
linked to: Hesiod's Theogony

Hesiod’s Works and Days
Pausanias’ Description of Greece
near Gulf of Corinth
Mount Parnassus
partOf Boeotia
Central Greece
sacredTo Apollo
Muses
linked to: the Muses
subclassOf mountain in Greek mythology

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Helikon transliteration Helikōn