. iest times honoured with chorusesand dances. (Thus one of the altars of theMuses at Athens was sacred to The Muses ofthe Ilissus.) Hence the nymphs themselveswere supposed to be the sources of song andpoetry. Such wor-ship was commonin Thracia andBoeotia, and itwas especiallyimportant at theplenteousspringsof Mt. Heli-con, Aganippeand were thusbrought into con-nexion with thegreat deities ofthat country,withDionysus, andmore especiallywith Apollo, whorepresented theircharacteristics asbeing the god atonce of prophet
. iest times honoured with chorusesand dances. (Thus one of the altars of theMuses at Athens was sacred to The Muses ofthe Ilissus.) Hence the nymphs themselveswere supposed to be the sources of song andpoetry. Such wor-ship was commonin Thracia andBoeotia, and itwas especiallyimportant at theplenteousspringsof Mt. Heli-con, Aganippeand were thusbrought into con-nexion with thegreat deities ofthat country,withDionysus, andmore especiallywith Apollo, whorepresented theircharacteristics asbeing the god atonce of propheticand of poeti-cal he is theleader of theMuses (Moucr-ay(Ti]S : cf. II. •i. 603 ; v. 23 ; Paus. v. 18, 4 ; p. 89, b). They notonly taught the poet his art (Hes. Th. 11), but,as gifted with oracular power, they came to beregarded as teaching arts and knowledge ingeneral.—1. Geyiealogy of the Muses. Themost common notion was that they were thedaughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, and bornin Pieria, at the foot of Mt. Olympus (II. 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-
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