Calliope

Family: Muses · Role: Muse · First appears: Fable 49

Life events

Calliope begins the Muses’ song for the contest.(Fable49 · 📍 Helicon)
- “Calliope rises, and, having her long hair gathered up with ivy, tunes with her thumb the sounding chords; and {then} sings these lines in concert with the strings when struck.”

with Minerva (Calliope performs a song for Minerva.) “Pallas says, ‘Do not hesitate, and repeat your song to me in its order;’ and she takes her seat under the pleasant shade of the grove. The Muse {then} tells her story. ‘We assigned the management of the contest to one {of our number}. Calliope rises, and, having her long hair gathered up with ivy, tunes with her thumb the sounding chords; and {then} sings these lines in concert with the strings when struck.’”
with Minerva (Minerva requests the song, and Calliope performs it.) “Pallas says, ‘Do not hesitate, and repeat your song to me in its order;’ and she takes her seat under the pleasant shade of the grove. The Muse {then} tells her story. ‘We assigned the management of the contest to one {of our number}. Calliope rises, and, having her long hair gathered up with ivy, tunes with her thumb the sounding chords;’”

with Minerva (Calliope's song is repeated to Minerva.) “One of the Muses repeats to Minerva the song of Calliope, in answer to the Pierides;”

Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.