god
the Muses
Muses
also: Μοῦσαι, Μοῦσα, clear-voiced Muse
The nine goddesses of song and memory, daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, repeatedly invoked to begin a hymn (3, 14, 19, 25, 27, 32, 33) and pictured dancing on Olympus with Apollo's lyre (Hymn 3).
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §3.134 Muses
The nine goddesses of song and memory, daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, repeatedly invoked to begin a hymn (3, 14, 19, 25, 27, 32, 33) and pictured dancing on Olympus with Apollo's lyre (Hymn 3).
- The Odyssey §1.1 Muse
The goddess of epic song invoked to inspire the poet at the poem's opening, as at the Iliad's.