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Melpomene is one of the nine Muses, the Muse of tragedy. [4] [5] Hesiod, Apollodorus, and Diodorus Siculus all held that Melpomene was the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne. She was the sister of the other Muses, Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, and Urania. [4]
Thalia, Muse of comedy, holding a comic mask (detail from the "Muses Sarcophagus") Apollo and the Muses on Mount Helicon (1680) by Claude Lorrain. According to Hesiod's Theogony (seventh century BC), they were daughters of Zeus, king of the gods, and Mnemosyne, Titan goddess of memory. Hesiod in Theogony narrates that the Muses brought to ...
She was the muse of thought and meditation. Melete literally means "ponder" and "contemplation" in Greek. Melete literally means "ponder" and "contemplation" in Greek. According to Pausanias in the later 2nd century AD, there were three original Muses: Aoidē ("song" or "voice"), Meletē ("practice"), and Mnēmē ("memory"). [ 2 ]
Philomela was the younger of two daughters of Pandion I, King of Athens, and the naiad Zeuxippe. Her sister, Procne , was the wife of King Tereus of Thrace . Philomela's other siblings were Erechtheus , Butes [ 1 ] and possibly Teuthras .
Mneme was the muse of memory. Pausanias 9.29 (2nd Century AD) treats obscure source material already obsolete in his own day. Citing the Atthis by Hegesinus — a poem no longer extant for Pausanias but cited by Callippus of Corinth (whose history of Orchomenus is no longer extant for us) — Pausanias records that anciently a group of three ...
Nancy Lee Muse was born on March 7, 1917, in Fort Worth, Texas. [2] [3] Her father was Ewell H. Muse and her mother, Roberta Maddox Muse. [2] She grew up in Fort Worth, where she learned to play the piano from a young age. [3] [4] She was educated at Central High School, later known as Paschal High School, in Fort Worth.
"Verse, pictures, music, thoughts both grave and gay," 1829 1850 Lines written in Commonplace Book of Miss Barbour, Daughter of the Minister of the U. S. A. to England "Child of my muse! in Barbour's gentle hand" 1829, August 1829, December 19 Song, ex improviso, on hearing a Song in praise of a Lady's Beauty "'Tis not the lily-brow I prize," 1830
Ionesco continued to use her daughter as her muse until Eva was 12 years old, at which point social services intervened and Ionesco was stripped of custody of her daughter. [6] Over the following years the two would have a fractured relationship, with Eva asserting her mother was abusive and fighting for control of the images she appeared in. [7]