![]() ![]() ![]() With regard to the number of the Muses, we are informed that originally three were worshipped on Mount Helicon in Boeotia, namely, Melete (meditation), Mneme (memory), and Aoede (song) and their worship and names are said to have been first introduced by Ephialtes and Otus. Praef.) Eupheme is called the nurse of the Muses, and at the foot of Mount Helicon her statue stood beside that of Linus. l.c.), or of Apollo, or of Zeus and Plusia, or of Zeus and Moneta, probably a mere translation of Mnemosyne or Mneme, whence they are called Mnemonides ( Ov. 3.37), and others daughters of Pierus and a Pimpleian nymph, whom Cicero ( De Nat. 1.3.1) but some call them the daughters of Uranus and Gaea (Schol. The most common notion was, that they were the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, and born in Pieria, at the foot of Mount Olympus ( Hes. The genealogy of the Muses is not the same in all writers. (Respecting the Muses conceived as nymphs see Schol. They were originally regarded as the nymphs of inspiring wells, near which they were worshipped, and bore different names in different places, until the Thraco-Boeotian worship of the nine Muses spread from Boeotia over other parts of Greece, and ultimately became generally established. The Muses, according to the earliest writers, were the inspiring goddesses of song, and, according to later noticus, divinities presiding over the different kinds of poetry, and over the arts and sciences. ![]()
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