An engraving from a painting by Italian artist Baldassarre Peruzzi (1481-1536) of Apollo dancing with the nine Muses: Calliope, Clio, Erato, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Polyhymnia, Euterpe, Thalia, and Urania. In Greek mythology, the muses are goddesses who


An engraving from a painting by Italian artist Baldassarre Peruzzi (1481-1536) of Apollo dancing with the nine Muses: Calliope, Clio, Erato, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Polyhymnia, Euterpe, Thalia, and Urania. In Greek mythology, the muses are goddesses who inspire literature and other arts and sciences. Apollo, worshipped by both the ancient Greeks and Romans, was the god of light, truth, prophecy, music, poetry, the arts, and more.


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