![]() PIEROS & ANTIOPE (Cicero De Natura Deorum 3.21, Tzetzes on Hesiod 35) NAMES APOLLON (Eumelus Frag 35, Tzetzes on Hesiod 35) OURANOS (Mimnermos Frag, Pausanias 9.29.1, Cicero De Natura Deorum 3.21) OURANOS & GAIA (Alcman Frag 67, Mnaseas Frag, Diodorus Siculus 4.7.1, Scholiast on Pindar, Aronobius 3.37) MNEMOSYNE (Pindar Paean 7, Terpander Frag 4, Aristotle Frag 842, Plato Theaetetus 191c) ZEUS (Homer Odyssey 8.457, Homeric Hymns 32, et al) ZEUS & MNEMOSYNE (Hesiod Theogony 1 & 915, Mimnermus Frag, Alcman Frag 8, Solon Frag 13, Apollodorus 1.13, Pausanias 1.2.5, Diodorus Siculus 4.7.1, Orphic Hymns 76 & 77, Antoninus Liberalis 9, Cicero De Natura Deorum 3.21, Arnobius 3.37) There were two alternative sets of Mousai-the three or four Mousai Titanides and the three Mousai Apollonides. In later art each of the nine was assigned her own distinctive attribute. In ancient Greek vase painting the Mousai were depicted as beautiful young women with a variety of musical intruments. Later the Mousai were assigned specific artistic spheres: Kalliope (Calliope), epic poetry Kleio (Clio), history Ourania (Urania), astronomy Thaleia (Thalia), comedy Melpomene, tragedy Polymnia (Polyhymnia), religious hymns Erato, erotic poetry Euterpe, lyric poetry and Terpsikhore (Terpsichore), choral song and dance. They were also goddesses of knowledge, who remembered all things that had come to pass. THE MOUSAI (Muses) were the goddesses of music, song and dance, and the source of inspiration to poets. Muse, Muses, Of Song Muse with barbiton, Paestan red-figure lekanis C4th B.C., Musée du Louvre
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