the spirit of power regarded as inspiring and watching over poets, musicians, and artists; a source of inspiration
In Greek mythology, are nine archaic goddesses who embody the right evocation of myth, inspired through remembered and improvised song and traditional music and dances. They were water nymphs, associated with the springs of Helicon and Pieris. The Olympian system set Apollo as their leader, Apollon Mousagetes.
daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, goddesses of epic poetry, lyric poetry, tragedy, choral dance, love poetry, sacred music, astronomy and comedy.
The often-invoked Nine female classical patrons of the arts and sciences: Erato (lyric poetry & mime), Calliope (epic poetry), Melpomene (tragedy), Thalia (comedy and pastoral poetry), Clio (History), Euterpe (lyric poetry & music), Terpsichore (dance), Polyhymnia (song & rhetoric), Urania (astronomy). Milton invokes Urania along with the Holy Spirit to inspire and guide his Paradise Lost.
In Greek mythology, the nine goddesses who presided over various arts and sciences. They are led by Apollo as god of music and poetry, and usually include Callipe. Muse of Epic, Poetry, Clio, Muse of History; Erato, Muse of Love Poetry; Euterpe, Muse of Music; Melpomene, Must of Tragedy; Polybymnia, Muse of Sacred Music; Terpsichore, Muse of Dancing; Thalia, Muse of Comedy; and Urania, Muse of Astronomy.
Nine daughters of Zeus in ancient mythology; each presided over one of the arts.
Greek; Goddess of Inspiration who vary in number depending upon the pantheon used.
Nine Greek mythological goddesses, the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne (Memory). Each muse patronized a specific area of the liberal arts and sciences. Calliope presided over epic poetry, Clio over history, Erato over love poetry, Euterpe over music or Lyric Poetry, Melpomene over tragedy, Polyhymnia over hymns to the gods, Terpsichore over dance, Thalia over Comedy, and Urania over astronomy. Poets and writers traditionally made appeals to the Muses for inspiration in their work. John Milton invokes the aid of a muse at the beginning of the first book of his Paradise Lost: Of Man's First disobedience, and the Fruit of the Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos....