Polyhymnia, Urania, Calliope, Thalia, Terpsichore, Clio, Euterpe, Melpomene, Erato
2007-12-06 11:10:20
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answered by Anonymous
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Calliope
Euterpe
Clio
Erato
Melpomene
Polyhymnia
Terpsichore
Thalia
Urania
2007-12-06 11:17:14
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answered by beasty_greg 1
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The Nine Muses were Greek goddesses who ruled over the arts and sciences and offered inspiration in those subjects. They were the daughters of Zeus, lord of all gods, and Mnemosyne, who represented memory. Memory was important for the Muses because in ancient times, when there were no books, poets had to carry their work in their memories.
Calliope was the muse of epic poetry.
Clio was the muse of history.
Erato was the muse of love poetry.
Euterpe was the muse of music.
Melpomene was the muse of tragedy.
Polyhymnia was the muse of sacred poetry.
Terpsichore was the muse of dance.
Thalia was the muse of comedy.
Urania was the muse of astronomy.
2007-12-06 12:00:04
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answered by Anonymous
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Kleio,
Euterpe
Thaleia
Melpomene
Terpsichore
Erato
Polymnia
Ourania
Kalliope
2007-12-06 11:05:34
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answered by Anonymous
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2016-10-10 10:25:47
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answered by Anonymous
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1. Calliope (the "beautiful of speech", chief of the muses and muse of epic or heroic poetry)
2. Clio (the "glorious one", muse of history)
3. Erato (the "amorous one", muse of love or erotic poetry, lyrics, and marriage songs)
4. Euterpe (the "well-pleasing", muse of music and lyric poetry)
5. Melpomene (the "chanting one", muse of tragedy)
6. Polyhymnia or Polymnia (the "singer of many hymns", muse of sacred song, oratory, lyric, singing and rhetoric)
7. Terpsichore (the "one who delights in dance", muse of choral song and dance)
8. Thalia (the "blossoming one", muse of comedy and bucolic poetry)
9. Urania (the "celestial one", muse of astronomy)
2007-12-06 12:23:44
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answered by Anonymous
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III. MARRAIGE AND THE AFFAIRS OF ZEUS
The earliest of his wives was Metis, the daughter of Oceanus. Metis took on several forms in order to try and escape from the god, but in vain. She finally submitted, and conceived a daughter, but Gaia predicted to Zeus that if Metis gave birth to a daughter, she would then produce a son who would dethrone his father. So Zeus swallowed Metis and, when the time came for the delivery of the child, Prometheus or Hephaestus split Zeus' skull with an axe, and the goddess Athena emerged fully armed. Zeus then married Themis, one of the Titanideas, and had daughters by her who were called the Seasons (the Horae), named Eirene (Peace), Eunomia (Discipline) and Dike (Justice). Then he fathered the Moirai who were the agents of Destiny. The marraige with Themis (who was the incarnation of eternal order and of law) has an obvious symbolic value, and explains how the omnipotent Zeus can be subject to fate since the Moirai, emanating directly from him, are in reality an aspect of himself.
Zeus then fathered Aphrodite on Dione, one of the Titanides. By Eurynome, daughter of Oceanus, he fathered the Graces or Charites, Aglaea, Euphrosyne and Thalia, who were originally spirits of vegetation. By Mnemosyne, a Titanide who symbolized memory, he had the Muses. Finally, by Leto, he fathered Apollo and Artemis.
It was only at this moment that, according to Hesiod, the 'sacred marraige' with Hera, his own sister, took place, but it was generally considered to have happened much earlier. Hebe, Eilithyia and Ares were born of this marraige. By another of his sisters, Demeter, Zeus had a daughter, Persephone. Such were Zeus' unions with goddesses but his intrigues with mortals were countless. Only the main ones will be mentioned here (Table 40). There was hardly a region in the Greek world which did not boast an eponymous hero who was a son born of one of Zeus' love affairs. Similarly, most the great families of legend were connected with Zeus. The Heraclids, for example, were descended not only from the union of the god and Alcmene but also, earlier, from the union of Zeus and Danae (Table 31). Achilles and Ajax were descended from Zeus through the Nymph Aegina (Table 30), and the ancestor of Agamemnon and Menelaus, Tantalus, was said to be the son of Zeus and Pluto (Table 2). Similarly, the race of Cadmus was connected with Zeus through Io and her son Epaphus (Table 3). The Trojans, through their ancestor Dardanus, were born of the affair between Zeus and the Pleiad Electra (Table 7). The Cretans claimed connections with Europa and the three sons she had by Zeus: Minos, Sarpedon and Rhadamanthys. The Arcadians had an ancestor called Arcas, son of Zeus and the Nymph Callisto (Table 9), and their neighbors the Argives took their name from Argos, the son (like his brother Palasgus, eponym of the Pelasgians) of Zeus and the Argive Niobe (Table 17 and Table 18). Finally, the Lacedaemonians claimed decent from the god and the Nymph Taygete (Table 6).
Although mythographers, especially from the Christian period onwards, pretended to consider these affairs merely as acts of debauchery, earlier poets and mythographers were at pains to recognize the deeper reasons which led the god to father children on mortals. The birth of Helen was explained as a desire to diminish the excessive population of Greece and Asia by provoking a bloody conflict. Similarly, the birth of Heracles was intended to provide a hero capable of ridding the world of destructive monsters. In short, procreation for Zeus was an act of providence. The ancient writers had already commented on the fact that many of these unions took place with Zeus disguised as an animal or in some other form: with Europa he took the form of a bull; with Leda a swan; with Danae a shower of gold. These bizarre acts were sometimes explained by the hypothesis that they offered the substitution of Zeus for earlier, local cults in which the divinity being replaced had an animal or fetishist form, but they nevertheless often aroused the indignation of these writers, who tried to give them a symbolic explanation. Thus for Euripides the shower of gold which seduced Danae was an image of the omnipotence of wealth. These adventures often exposed Zeus to Hera's anger. One explanation given by ancient writers for the god's metamorphoses was the desire to be concealed from his wife, but this is obviously a later invention, later than the stories of metamorphosis themselves. Zeus' lovers often took animal forms. Thus Io was metamorphosed into a cow, and Callisto became a she-bear.
2007-12-06 12:22:09
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answer #7
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answered by Anonymous
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Brittney
Kylie
Alexis
Christina
Jennifer
Ellen
Jessica
Michelle
Lindsay
2007-12-06 11:31:36
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answered by lineman108 2
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Erato
Terpsichore
Kalliopi
Efterpi
Thalia
Urania
Klio
Polimnia
Melpomeni
2007-12-06 11:13:02
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answer #9
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answered by alla s 2
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1]Hilda
2]Madge
3]Kylie
4]Satsuma
5]Tracey
6]Edith
7]Dave ..eh?
8]Marigold
9]Britney
2007-12-06 11:32:54
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answered by infobod2nd 4
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