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Erato is the Muse of lyric poetry, particularly erotic poetry, and mimic imitation. In the Orphic hymn to the Muses, it is Erato who charms the sight. Since the Renaissance she has mostly been shown with a wreath of myrtle and roses, holding a lyre, or a small kithara, a musical instrument often associated with Apollo. [2]
Erato, one of the Nymphs Dodonides (Nysiades), nurses of Dionysus in Mount Nysa. [4] Erato, a Libyan princess, was one of the daughters of King Danaus and naiad Polyxo. Under the command of their father, along with her sisters except Hypermnestra, Erato married and murdered her husband Bromios [5] or Eudaemon [6] at the night of their wedding.
His known sibling was his younger paternal half-sister Erato who was born to another woman, whose name is also unknown. [5] Although Tigranes IV was the namesake of his father, the name Tigranes was the most common royal name in the Artaxiad dynasty and was among the most ancient names of the Armenian Kings. [ 6 ]
She was the sister of the other Muses, Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, and Urania. [4] Apollodorus, Lycophron, and Gaius Julius Hyginus said that Melpomene was the mother of the sirens, [4] though some ancient writers identified this role with other figures. [6]
Antiochis, sister of Antiochus III the Great, wife of Xerxes; Satenik of the Alans, daughter of the king of the Alans, wife of Artaxias I; Cleopatra of Pontus, daughter of Mithridates VI of Pontus, wife of Tigranes II the Great; Erato of Armenia, half-sister and wife of Tigranes IV; also co-ruler
Euterpe was born as one of the daughters of Mnemosyne, Titan goddess of memory, and fathered by Zeus, god of the gods.Her sisters include Calliope (muse of epic poetry), Clio (muse of history), Melpomene (muse of tragedy), Terpsichore (muse of dancing), Erato (muse of erotic poetry), Thalia (muse of comedy), Polyhymnia (muse of hymns), and Urania (muse of astronomy).
Hippe, who, like her sister Amymone, gave her name to a freshwater source [34] Hippodamia, mother of Olenus by Zeus. [35] (Maybe the same as the above Anaxithea) Isonoe or Isione or Hesione, mother of Orchomenus [36] or Chryses [35] by Zeus. Kamira; Phaethusa, one of the possible mothers of Myrtilus by Hermes [32] [37] Phylodameia, mother of ...
Rhadamistus was the eldest son of King Pharasmanes I of Iberia. [4] [5] [6] His mother, whose name is not preserved, was an Armenian princess of the Artaxiad dynasty, daughter of Tigranes IV and his sister-wife Erato.