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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)
In Greek mythology, Uranus (/ ˈ j ʊər ə n ə s / YOOR-ə-nəs, also / j ʊ ˈ r eɪ n ə s / yoo-RAY-nəs), [2] sometimes written Ouranos (Ancient Greek: Οὐρανός, lit. 'sky', ), is the personification of the sky and one of the Greek primordial deities.
[1] [2] Along with her sisters, Urania was one of the companions of Persephone when the daughter of Demeter was abducted by Hades. [3] Urania, one of the nine Muses, daughters of Zeus, king of the gods, and the Titaness Mnemosyne. [4] Urania, a surname of Aphrodite, describing her as "the heavenly," or spiritual, to distinguish her from ...
Venus Urania (Christian Griepenkerl, 1878) Statue of the so-called 'Aphrodite on a tortoise', 430–420 BCE, Athens [a]Aphrodite Urania (Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδίτη Οὐρανία, romanized: Aphrodítē Ouranía, Latinized as Venus Urania) was an epithet of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, signifying a "heavenly" or "spiritual" aspect descended from the sky-god Ouranos to distinguish her ...
Rhea or Rheia (/ ˈ r iː ə /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ῥέα or Ῥεία [r̥ěː.aː]) is a mother goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Titan daughter of the earth goddess Gaia and the sky god Uranus, himself a son of Gaia.
Urania was the daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne and also a great-granddaughter of Uranus. [1] Some accounts list her as the mother of the musician Linus [2] by Apollo [3] or Hermes [4] or Amphimarus, [5] son of Poseidon. Hymenaeus is also said to have been a son of Urania. [6]
In the Phoenician History, a literary work attributed to Sanchuniathon, a daughter of Uranus/Heaven and Gaia/Earth is called Dione and also Baaltis. [13] She is a sister of Kronos/Elus whom the latter made his wife after their father sent her, and her sisters, to kill Kronos/Elus. The latter gave the city Byblos to Dione. The exact identity of ...
Phoebe is a Titaness, one of the twelve (or thirteen) divine children born to Uranus and Gaia . Phoebe's consort was her brother Coeus , with whom she had two daughters, first Leto , who bore Apollo and Artemis , and then Asteria , a star goddess who bore an only daughter, Hecate . [ 7 ]