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To: Soaring Feather
Greek Muses have been assigned to poetry styles.

Though the Muses, when taken together, form a complete picture of the subjects proper to poetic art, the association of specific muses with specific art forms is a later innovation. The Muses were not assigned standardized divisions of poetry with which they are now identified until late Hellenistic times. The canonical nine Muses, with their fields of patronage, as established since the Renaissance, are:

*                   Calliope (the 'beautiful of speech'): chief of the muses and muse of epic or heroic poetry

*                   Clio (the 'glorious one'): muse of history

*                   Erato (the 'amorous one'): muse of love or erotic poetry, lyrics, and marriage songs

*                   Euterpe (the 'well-pleasing'): muse of music and lyric poetry

*                   Melpomene (the 'chanting one'): muse of tragedy

*                   Polyhymnia or Polymnia (the '[singer] of many hymns'): muse of sacred song, oratory, lyric, singing and rhetoric

*                   Terpsichore (the '[one who] delights in dance'): muse of choral song and dance

*                   Thalia (the 'blossoming one'): muse of comedy and bucolic poetry

*                   Urania (the 'celestial one'): muse of astronomy

 


56 posted on 06/02/2008 11:46:00 AM PDT by Lady Jag (You can contribute to FR any time at https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
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To: Lady Jag; Soaring Feather

What happened to Sleepy, Doc, Dopey, Bashful, etc????


58 posted on 06/02/2008 11:49:55 AM PDT by tomkow6 (...............CHANGE We Can Believe............My "VOICES"!....)
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