The Muses were the ancient Greek goddesses of music, song and dance, and the source of inspiration to poets. They were also goddesses of knowledge, who remembered all things that had come to pass. Later the Mousai were assigned specific artistic spheres:
The Muses were the Greek goddesses of poetic inspiration, the adored deities of song, dance, and memory, on whose mercy the creativity, wisdom and insight of all artists and thinkers depended. They may have been originally three in number, but, according to Hesiod and the prevailing tradition...
In Greek mythology Leto was one of the female Titans, a bride of Zeus, and the mother of the twin gods Apollo and Artemis. She was the goddess of motherhood and, with her children, a protectress of the young. When Leto was pregant with the twins she was
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1 Athena (Greek God of Wisdom)Thea Lightweaver 2 Poseidon (Greek God of the Sea)Thea Lightweaver 3 Dionysus (Greek God of Liberation)Thea Lightweaver 4 Hera (Greek Goddess of Women)Thea Lightweaver 5 Apollo (Greek God of Prophecy)Thea Lightweaver 6 Hermes (Greek God of Communicatio...
Hebe was the Greek goddess of youth or the prime of life. Click for Hebe facts and worksheets in PDF format!
Description: He’s one of the most important and famous of the Greek gods. He’s the twin brother of Artemis, born to Zeus and Titan goddess Leto. According to legend, he’s the teacher of the nine beautiful Muses. He would accompany them with his famous lyre when they sing. What Is...
It has been suggested "tragedy" was derived fromtragodoi, or “goat singers,” instead oftragoidia, or “goat song." That would make sense if a chorus of singers received a goat for a winning play. Why goats? Goats would’ve been a good prize since they were sacrificed to Dionysus and...
the god of the heaven and ruler of the Olympian gods lord of the sky, the rain god and the cloud gatherer His wielded thunderbolt His bird was the eagle, his tree the oak.Hera Queen of Heaven the supreme goddess, goddess of marriage and childbirth ...
Mnemosyne, the Greek goddess of memory, was considered one of the most powerful goddesses of her time. After all, it is memory, some believed, that is a gift that distinguishes us from the other creatures in the animal world. It is the gift that allows us to reason, predict and anticipa...