(19) si neque tibias / Euterpe cohibet nec
Polyhymnia / Lesboum refugit tendere barbiton, if Euterpe would not withhold the flutes and
Polyhymnia not refuse to tune the lyre of Lesbos, 1.1.32-34.
Polyhymnia. Berkeley: University of California Press.
THE MUSE
POLYHYMNIA: THE JUDGE AS MORAL ARBITER AND THE PROBLEM OF CREEPING JUDICIALIZATION OF EVERYDAY POLITICS A.
A sculpture of
Polyhymnia has regained a missing hand; other figures have regenerated fingers and toes.
Ditters made a name for himself with his 12 programmatic sinfonias based on Ovids Metamorphoses and in Pichl's output we also find a cycle of sinfonias with the names of Greek muses: Terpsichore, Euterpe, Uranie, Clio, Melpomene, Calliope, Thalia and
Polyhymnia (cca 1764-1769).
The muse of history is no doubt
Polyhymnia. History may be seen as the universal memory of human kind.
Rather than going under the Philips label, the discs are named PentaTone Classics for reasons unknown to me except that the company doing the remastering is called
Polyhymnia, which still doesn't explain things.
They are three of the nine Muses of Greek mythology, otherwise known as Erato (goddess of love poetry),
Polyhymnia (goddess of sacred poetry) and Thalia (goddess of comedy), daughters of Zeus, and Mnemosyne (Titan goddess of memory).
(30.) From "
Polyhymnia" in The Life and Minor Works of George Peele, ed.
The rest of Calliope's chorus line included Clio (history), Erato (love poetry), Euterpe (music), Melpomene (tragedy),
Polyhymnia (oratory or sacred poetry), Thalia (comedy), Terpsichore (song and dance), and Urania (astronomy).
Teil) from his own
Polyhymnia caduceatrix et panegyrica (Wolfenbuttel, 1619).
The 'English Poetry' database can add another scrap of relevant information: there is only one example of either plural in Shakespeare's or Peele's poems, and that is brethren in Peele's
Polyhymnia. So Peele's preference was consistent.
85), and the text itself consists of a conversation between Brahms and
Polyhymnia on Mount Parnassus, which is interspersed with musical inserts and in which Brahms finally asserts that "all the arts are essentially one and indivisible."(5)
