Musaeus, Musaios () or Musäus may refer to:

Greek poets

Musaeus of Athens Musaeus of Athens (, ''Mousaios'') was a legendary polymath, philosopher, historian, prophet, seer, priest, poet, and musician, said to have been the founder of priestly poetry in Attica. He composed dedicatory and purificatory hymns and prose tr ...

, legendary polymath, considered by the Greeks to be one of their earliest poets *

Musaeus of Ephesus Musaeus of Ephesus () was an Ephesian epic poet attached to the court of the kings of Pergamon, who wrote a ''Perseis'' in ten books and also poems about Eumenes and Attalus I Attalus I ( ), surnamed ''Soter'' (, ; 269–197 BC), was the r ...

, lived after 241 BCE *

Musaeus Grammaticus Musaeus Grammaticus ( ''Mousaios'') probably belongs to the beginning of the 6th century AD, as his style and metre are evidently modeled on those of Nonnus. He lived before Agathias (530–582) and has been identified with a correspondent of Pr ...

, lived probably in the beginning of the 6th century * Musaeus of Massilia, lived in the first half of the 5th century

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Musaeus (officer of Antiochus III) Musaeus () was an officer of Antiochus III the Great, the ruler of the Seleucid Empire. Following his defeat in the Battle of Magnesia (190 BC), Antiochus III sent Musaeus to the triumphant Roman consuls (Scipio Asiaticus and Scipio Nasica), then s ...

(fl. 190 BCE), Seleucid Empire *

Musaeus College Musaeus College is a Buddhist private girls' school in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The school is named after its founding principal, Marie Musaeus Higgins (1855 – 10 July 1926) from Wismar, Germany, who served as the school's principal from 1891 t ...

, a private girls' school in Colombo, Sri Lanka *

10749 Musäus 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sp ...

, a main belt asteroid * ''Musaeus'' (spider), a spider genus of the family Thomisidae

Greek poets

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