![]() Homerica, Fragments of Unkown Position 1 (from Diogenes Laertius 8. formerly the Musae's friend, to whom Uranie herself, knowing full well his Stygian destiny, had long foretold his death by the position of the stars. Kleio (Clio), and Erato who charms the sight, with thee, Euterpe, ministering delight: Thalia flourishing, Polymnia famed, Melpomene from skill in music named: Terpsikhore (Terpsichore), Ourania (Urania) heavenly bright." Ourania (Urania), because men who have been instructed by her she raises aloft to heaven ( ouranos), for it is a fact that imagination and the power of thought lift men's souls to heavenly heights." For the name of each Mousa (Muse), they say, men have found a reason appropriate to her. To each of the Mousai (Muses) men assign her special aptitude for one of the branches of the liberal arts, such as poetry, song, pantomimic dancing, the round dance with music, the study of the stars, and the other liberal arts. "Hesiod even gives their names when he writes : ‘Kleio (Clio), Euterpe, and Thaleia (Thalia), Melpomene, Terpsikhore (Terpsichore) and Erato, and Polymnia, Ourania (Urania), Kalliope (Calliope) too, of them all the most comely.’ of Kalliope (Calliope) the eldest Mousa (Muse) and of Ourania (Urania) who is next to her, for the philosophers, of whose music the grasshoppers make report to them for these are the Mousai who are chiefly concerned with heaven and thought, divine as well as human, and they have the sweetest utterance."ĭiodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. They win the love of Terpsikhore (Terpsichore) for the dancers by their report of them. "When they die they go and inform the Mousai (Muses) in heaven who honours them on earth. "Mnemosyne the Mousai (Muses), the eldest of whom was Kalliope (Calliope), followed by Kleio (Clio), Melpomene, Euterpe, Erato, Terpsikhore (Terpsichore), Ourania (Urania), Thaleia (Thalia), and Polymnia." Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : "Since fine-throned Ourania (Urania) has sent me from Pieria a golden cargo-boat laden with glorious songs." "Thanks to Nike (Victory) the hymn of song-ruling Ourania (Urania) gives praise in an ode sung before your house. "You if any motal now alive will rightly assess the sweet gift of the violet-crowned Mousai (Muses) sent for your adornment: rest your righteous mind in ease from its cares and come! turn your thoughts this way: with the help of the slim-waisted Kharites your guest-friend, the famous servant of Ourania (Urania) with her golden headband, has woven a song of praise and sends it from the sacred island to your distinguishing city: he wishes to pour a flood of speech from his heart in praise of Hiero." And the sweet-voiced cock of lyre-ruling Ourania (Urania)." " has his share in the violet-haired Mousai (Muses).The light of man's excellence, however, does not diminish with his body no, the Mousa (Muse) fosters it. "The Mousai (Muses) sang who dwell on Olympos, nine daughters begotten by great Zeus, Kleio (Clio) and Euterpe, Thaleia (Thalia), Melpomene and Terpsikhore (Terpsichore), and Erato and Polymnia (Polyhymnia) and Ourania (Urania) and Kalliope (Calliope)."īacchylides, Fragment 3 (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) : Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 2.) She was regarded, as her name indicates, as the Muse of Astronomy, and was represented with a celestial globe to which she points with a little staff. 161), and Hymenaeus also is said to have been a son of Urania. 55.) The ancient bard Linus is called her son by Apollo (Hygin. One of the Muses, a daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne. HYMENAIOS (Pindar Dirges Frag 139, Nonnus Dionysiaca 24.77 & 34.67) ![]() LINOS (by Apollon) (Hyginus Fabulae 161) LINOS (by Amphimaros) (Pausanias 9.29.5, Suidas s.v. LINOS (Homerica Fragments 1, Folk Songs Frag 880) ZEUS & MNEMOSYNE (Hesiod Theogony 75, Apollodorus 1.13, Diodorus Siculus 4.7.1, Orphic Hymn 76) OFFSPRING In this guise she was depicted pointing at a celestial globe with a rod. In the Classical era, when the Mousai were assigned specific artistic and literary spheres, Ourania was named Muse of astronomy and astronomical writings. OURANIA (Urania) was one of the nine Mousai (Muses), the goddesses of music, song and dance. Heavenly One Portraits of the nine Muses, Greco-Roman mosaic from Cos, Archaeological Museum of Cos
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