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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 ...
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]
A Titaness, Mnemosyne is the daughter of Uranus and Gaia. [3] Mnemosyne became the mother of the nine Muses, fathered by her nephew, Zeus: Calliope (epic poetry) Clio (history) Euterpe (music and lyric poetry) Erato (love poetry) Melpomene (tragedy) Polyhymnia (hymns) Terpsichore (dance) Thalia (comedy) Urania (astronomy)
The Muse recounted the abduction of Persephone by god of underworld, Hades and the sorrow of the young girl's mother, the goddess Demeter for the loss of her beloved daughter. Calliope also told the account of the unrequited love of the river god Alpheus to the nymph Arethusa and also the adventure of hero Triptolemus in Scythia where he ...
The Nine Muses, Or, Poems Written by Nine severall Ladies Upon the death of the late Famous John Dryden, Esq. (London: Richard Basset, 1700) was an elegiac volume of poetry published pseudonymously. The contributors were English women writers, each of whom signed their poems with the name of one of the Muses .
One of three sisters (whose mother's sole wish is said to have been that each of her daughters marry well; it came true), she was a fashion editor at Vogue from 1938 until 1947. Her first marriage ...
Born the daughter – Caenis – of the Lapith Elatus. She was metamorphosed into an invulnerable, male hero – Caeneus – by Neptunus. VIII: 305, XII: 172-514 [49] Calchas: Son of Thestor. Calchas was the Argive augur of the Greeks in the Trojan War. XII: 19-27 [50] Calliope: Muse and mother of Orpheus. V: 338, X: 148 [51] Callisto: Nymph ...
In some accounts, Calliope is the mother of the Corybantes by her father Zeus. [6] She was sometimes believed to be Homer's muse for the Iliad and the Odyssey. [7] The Roman epic poet Virgil invokes her in the Aeneid ("Aid, O Calliope, the martial song!") [8] In some cases, she is said to be the mother of Sirens by the river-god Achelous. [9]