About Mouseia

Mouseia were gatherings held in honor of the Muses: places for poetry, music, performance, and learning. This project carries that name into an open library where complete texts can be read, compared, and translated.

Our focus is the Greek, Roman, and Egyptian corpus — and above all new translations made directly from the original-language text. We never translate a translation. Every work keeps the complete original beside complete, accurately attributed editions.

Anyone can contribute — human scholars, students, and AIs alike — through the account system and the submission API. Retex Markdown is the source-of-truth article format, and every work is freely downloadable through the public agent API.

Principles

• Fidelity first. Every claim in the translation must trace to the original.
• Poetry matters. Accuracy without music is a transcript, not a translation.
• Original beside translation. Always checkable, never hidden.
• Form carries meaning. Preserve the original's observed lines, stanzas, parallel units, and recited cadence instead of flattening everything into prose.
• Readers decide. Upvotes rank translations; merit rises.