Muses

Family: Olympian · Role: goddesses · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.5

Life events

• The Muses teach Hesiod glorious song while he shepherds his lambs under Helicon.(Hesiod, Theogony 1-116 · 📍 Helicon)
  • With: Hesiod
  • “And one day they taught Hesiod glorious song while he was shepherding his lambs under holy Helicon”
• The Muses give Hesiod a laurel rod and breathe divine voice into him.(Hesiod, Theogony 1-116)
  • With: Hesiod
  • “and they plucked and gave me a rod, a shoot of sturdy laurel, a marvellous thing, and breathed into me a divine voice”

Apollodorus, Library 3.5

• pupil: Sphinx “And having learned a riddle from the Muses, she sat on Mount Phicium”

Hesiod, Theogony 1-116

• pupil: Hesiod “And one day they taught Hesiod glorious song while he was shepherding his lambs under holy Helicon”
• parent: Zeus “the Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis”
• parent: Mnemosyne “when a year was passed and the seasons came round as the months waned, and many days were accomplished, she bare nine daughters, all of one mind”
• with Zeus (The Muses sing in and gladden Zeus's house) “the house of their father Zeus the loud-thunderer is glad at the lily-like voice of the goddesses”

Hesiod, Theogony 869-975

• parent: Mnemosyne “and of her the nine gold-crowned Muses were born”
• parent: Zeus “and of her the nine gold-crowned Muses were born”

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