Calliope

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 Clio Melpomene Euterpe Erato Terpsichore Urania Polymnia
  • “So the Muses got the better of him and bereft him both of his eyes and of his minstrelsy.”
• Mnemosyne bears nine daughters after union with Zeus.(Hesiod, Theogony 1-116 · 📍 Pieria)
  • With: Mnemosyne Zeus Cleio Euterpe Thaleia Melpomene Terpsichore Erato Polyhymnia Urania
  • “Them in Pieria did Mnemosyne (Memory), who reigns over the hills of Eleuther, bear of union with the father, the son of Cronos, a forgetting of ills and a rest from sorrow. For nine nights did wise Zeus lie with her, entering her holy bed remote from the immortals. And when a year was passed and the seasons came round as the months waned, and many days were accomplished, she bare nine daughters”

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.”
• child: Linus “Now Calliope bore to Oeagrus or, nominally, to Apollo, a son Linus, whom Hercules slew;”
• child: Orpheus “and another son, Orpheus, who practised minstrelsy and by his songs moved stones and trees.”
• 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.”
• child: Rhesus “Euterpe had by the river Strymon a son Rhesus, whom Diomedes slew at Troy ; but some say his mother was Calliope.”

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