. Clio, the Muse of History. (Froma statue now in Sweden.) MUSAE 577 491, Od. i. 10; Hes. Th. 52, 915; Apollod. i. 3,li. There were other traditions of their beingdaughters of Uranus and Ge fin allusion to theorigin of springs), or of Pierus, from theirworship ill Pieria and their names Pierides or in Hesioc f all the nine, and these nine names became the usual are Clio, Futerpe, Thalia, Melpomene,Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia or Polyhymnia,Urania, and Calliope. In some local tradi-. Pieriae nymphae (Cic. ii. 21, 54).—2

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. Clio, the Muse of History. (Froma statue now in Sweden.) MUSAE 577 491, Od. i. 10; Hes. Th. 52, 915; Apollod. i. 3,li. There were other traditions of their beingdaughters of Uranus and Ge fin allusion to theorigin of springs), or of Pierus, from theirworship ill Pieria and their names Pierides or in Hesioc f all the nine, and these nine names became the usual are Clio, Futerpe, Thalia, Melpomene,Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia or Polyhymnia,Urania, and Calliope. In some local tradi-. Pieriae nymphae (Cic. ii. 21, 54).— of the Muses. That there were nineMuses instead of the usual three (according tothe number of Graces, Hours, Sec.) was probablydue to the form which the choruses took round tions the number three was asserted. Pausaniasand Plutarch speak of three Muses at one timehonoured on Helicon (where their names weresaid to be Melete, Mneme, and Aoide), atDelphi and at Sicyon (Paus. is. 29; Plut.

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