Ever since, the Muses supported and encouraged creation, enhancing imagination and inspiration of the artists. When they grew up they showed their tendency to the arts, taught by God Apollo himself.Īpollo brought them to the big and beautiful Mount Elikonas, where the older Temple of Zeus used to be. Μnemosyne gave the babies to Nymph Eufime and Apollo (God of Light, Eloquence, Poetry and Fine Arts). Zeus and Mnemosyne slept together for nine consecutive nights, thus birthing the nine Muses.
It was only later, with Hesiod that the idea of Nine Muses showed up.Īccording to it, they were the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne. The Muses were the Greek goddesses of inspiration in literature, science and the arts.īefore the Classical idea of the nine Muses, Pausanias tells us of three Muses, different altogether from the nine we know.
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