He was Antifemus' son and Evmolpus' father. He was one of the distinguished students of Orpheas', another great philosopher of the prehistoric times who said that "Everything comes out of the ONE (atom) and if they are analysed, they end in the ONE again" (Diogenis Laertes "Philosophers' lives"). This has been interpreted as the principle of the Atomic Theory thousands of years before Leucippus and Democritus (known as the ancient Greek Atomizes). However, some other writers are wondering whether Musaeus' words have brought to light a monotheistic form of religion of the prehistoric Hellenic World, as well.
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