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the 9 greek muses info sheet with their names in english and spanish, including an image

The Muses were credited with inspiring some of the greatest art, poetry and music created by mortal men and women throughout history. As minor goddesses of the Greek pantheon, they hardly ever featured in their own myths individually.

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Download this stock image: Greek and Roman gods: the Muses. Clio 1, Euterpe 2, Thalia 3, Melpomene 4, Terpsichore 5, Erato 6, Polyhymnia 7, Urania 8 and Calliope 9. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1805. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume…

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The Greek goddess Mnemosyne is the goddess of memory. She is the mother of the Muses. So memory gives us the arts. The Muses are the goddesses of inspiration who bless mortals with the gifts of song, dance, and contemplation. There are muses of epic poetry (Calliope), of lyric poetry (Euterpe), of love songs (Erato), of songs to the gods (Polyhymnia), of history (Clio), of chorus and dance (Terpsichore), of tragedy and comedy (Melpomene and Thalia), and of astronomy (Urania). All of these…

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