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The earliest known records of the Muses come from Boeotia (Boeotian muses). Some ancient authorities regarded the Muses as of Thracian origin. [6] In Thrace, a tradition of three original Muses persisted. [7] In the first century BC, Diodorus Siculus cited Homer and Hesiod to the contrary, observing:
In Greek mythology, Melete / ˈ m ɛ l ɪ t iː / (Ancient Greek: Μελέτη) was one of the three original Boeotian muses before the Nine Olympian Muses were founded. Her sisters were Aoede and Mneme. [1] She was the muse of thought and meditation. Melete literally means "ponder" and "contemplation" in Greek.
In Greek mythology, Mneme / ˈ n iː m iː / (Ancient Greek: Μνήμη, romanized: Mnḗmē) was one of the three original Boeotian muses, along with her sisters Aoede and Melete before Arche and Thelxinoë were identified, increasing the number to five. Later, the Nine Olympian Muses were named. Mneme was the muse of memory.
In Greek mythology, Aoede / eɪ ˈ iː d iː / (Ancient Greek: Ἀοιδή, Aoidē) was one of the three original Boeotian muses, which later grew to five before the Nine Olympian Muses were named. Her sisters were Melete and Mneme. She was the muse of voice and song.
In Greek mythology, Nete / ˈ n iː t iː / (Νήτη) was one of the three Muses of the lyre that were worshipped at Delphi, where the Temple of Apollo and the Oracle were located. Her name was also the lowest of the seven notes of the lyre. Her sisters that were worshipped along with her were Hypate and Mese.
As time passed, nine muses dedicated to the arts, sciences, and literature were uniformly recognized around Greece, now known as the Olympian Muses. The nine muses were daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, and are more familiar in classical descriptions of the muses than the earlier four. This was largely adapted into the ancient Roman religion as
Three muses (NAMA 215) From left to right; Apollo, a servant in Scythian dress, and Marsyas (NAMA 216) Three muses (NAMA 217) The Mantineia Base is an ensemble of three ancient Greek bas relief plaques, one of which depicts Apollo, Marsyas, and a slave, and the other two of which each show a group of three Muses.
Her sisters who were worshipped along with her were Nete and Mese, who also have notes named after them in ancient Greek music theory. [1] These three muses were comparable to the original three, Aoide, Melete, and Mneme. Alternatively, they were Cephisso, Apollonis, and Borysthenis, which portrayed them as the daughters of Apollo.