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Held at National Gallery of Art. 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:
The Muses is a 1578 painting by Tintoretto showing the Muses from Greek mythology. It is recorded in the inventory of the collection of Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua in 1627 as hanging alongside Esther Before Ahasuerus in a passage in the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua. It was acquired from the Gonzagas by Charles I of Great Britain.
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.
Thalia on an antique fresco from Pompeii. In Greek mythology, Thalia (/ θ ə ˈ l aɪ ə / [1] [2] or / ˈ θ eɪ l i ə /; [3] Ancient Greek: Θάλεια; "the joyous, the flourishing", from Ancient Greek: θάλλειν, thállein; "to flourish, to be verdant"), also spelled Thaleia, was one of the Muses, the goddess who presided over comedy and idyllic poetry.
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.
The Three Graces, a 1531 painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder; Three Graces, a 16th-century painting by Raphael; The Three Graces (Rubens, Florence), a 1620–1623 painting by Peter Paul Rubens; The Three Graces (Rubens, Madrid), a 1630–1635 painting by Rubens; The Three Graces, a painting by Michael Parkes; Three Women with Parasols, also ...