Melpomene
First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.3
Life events
- The Muses defeated Thamyris and took both his eyes and musical ability.(Apollodorus, Library 1.3)
- Mnemosyne bears nine daughters after union with Zeus.(Hesiod, Theogony 1-116 · 📍 Pieria)
- With: Mnemosyne Zeus Cleio Euterpe Thaleia Terpsichore Erato Polyhymnia Urania Calliope
- “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.”
- 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: sirens “and Melpomene had by Achelous the Sirens, of whom we shall speak in treating of Ulysses.”
Apollodorus, Epitome 7
- child: Pisinoe (parent->child) “the Sirens were Pisinoe, Aglaope, and Thelxiepia, daughters of Achelous and Melpomene”
- child: Aglaope (parent->child) “the Sirens were Pisinoe, Aglaope, and Thelxiepia, daughters of Achelous and Melpomene”
- child: Thelxiepia (parent->child) “the Sirens were Pisinoe, Aglaope, and Thelxiepia, daughters of Achelous and Melpomene”
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