Clio

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.3

Life events

• The Muses defeated Thamyris and took both his eyes and musical ability.(Apollodorus, Library 1.3)
  • With: Thamyris Melpomene Euterpe Erato Terpsichore Urania Polymnia Calliope
  • “So the Muses got the better of him and bereft him both of his eyes and of his minstrelsy.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.3

• parent: Zeus “by Memory ( Mnemosyne) he had the Muses, first Calliope, then Clio, Melpomene, Euterpe, Erato, Terpsichore, Urania, Thalia, and Polymnia.”
• parent: Mnemosyne “by Memory ( Mnemosyne) he had the Muses, first Calliope, then Clio, Melpomene, Euterpe, Erato, Terpsichore, Urania, Thalia, and Polymnia.”
• courtship with Pierus “Clio fell in love with Pierus, son of Magnes, in consequence of the wrath of Aphrodite,”
• child: Hyacinth “and having met him she bore him a son Hyacinth,”
• rivals with Thamyris “engaged in a musical contest with the Muses, the agreement being that, if he won, he should enjoy them all, but that if he should be vanquished he should be bereft of what they would.”
• admired: Pierus “Clio fell in love with Pierus, son of Magnes”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.