12/24/2023 0 Comments Nine muses mythologyHomer sometimes mentions Musa only in the singular, and sometimes Musae in the plural, and once only 17 he speaks of nine Muses, though without mentioning any of their names. 16 At length, however, the number nine appears to have become established in all Greece. Neilo, Tritone, Asopo, Heptapora, Achelois, Tipoplo, and Rhodia, 15 and others, lastly, mention eight, which is also said to have been the number recognized at Athens. 14 Some accounts, again, in which they are called daughters of Pierus, mention seven Muses, viz. Thelxinoë (the heart delighting), Aoede (song), Arche (beginning), and Melete. 13Īs daughters of Zeus and Plusia we find mention of four Muses, viz. Nete, Mese, and Hypate, 12 or Cephisso, Apollonis, and Borysthenis, which names characterize them as the daughters of Apollo. 10 Three were also recognized at Sicyon, where one of them bore the name of Polymatheia, 11 and at Delphi, where their names were identical with those of the lowest, middle, and highest chord of the lyre, viz. With regard to the number of the Muses, we are informed that originally three were worshiped on Mount Helicon in Boeotia, namely, Melete (meditation), Mneme (memory), and Aoede (song) and their worship and names are said to have been first introduced by Ephialtes and Otus. 8 Eupheme is called the nurse of the Muses, and at the foot of Mount Helicon her statue stood beside that of Linus. The most common notion was, that they were the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, and born in Pieria, at the foot of Mount Olympus 2 but some call them the daughters of Uranus and Gaea, 3 and others daughters of Pierus and a Pimpleian nymph, whom Cicero 4 calls Antiope, 5 or of Apollo, or of Zeus and Plusia, or of Zeus and Moneta, probably a mere translation of Mnemosyne or Mneme, whence they are called Mnemonides, 6 or of Zeus and Athena, 7 or lastly of Aether and Gaea. The genealogy of the Muses is not the same in all writers. They were originally regarded as the nymphs of inspiring wells, near which they were worshiped, and bore different names in different places, until the Thraco-Boeotian worship of the nine Muses spread from Boeotia over other parts of Greece, and ultimately became generally established. The Muses, according to the earliest writers, were the inspiring goddesses of song, and, according to later noticus, divinities presiding over the different kinds of poetry, and over the arts and sciences.
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