Urania

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 Polymnia Calliope
  • “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 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

• 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.”

Hesiod, Theogony 1-116

• parent: Zeus “These things, then, the Muses sang who dwell on Olympus, nine daughters begotten by great Zeus, Cleio and Euterpe, Thaleia, Melpomene and Terpsichore, and Erato and Polyhymnia and Urania and Calliope”
• parent: Mnemosyne “These things, then, the Muses sang who dwell on Olympus, nine daughters begotten by great Zeus, Cleio and Euterpe, Thaleia, Melpomene and Terpsichore, and Erato and Polyhymnia and Urania and Calliope”

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