Erato was one of the nine Muses, the ancient Greek goddesses of music, song and dance. In the Classical era, when the Muses were assigned specific literary and artistic spheres, Erato was named Muse of erotic poetry and mime, and represented with a lyre.
The Mousai (Muses) were originally goddesses of music, poetry, eloquence and song. In the late classical era their role was expanded to encompass a variety of arts including rhetoric, philosophy, mathematics, geography, history and astronomy. The nine books of the Herodotus'Histories, for example...
I’d highly recommend this anthology for poetry readers. Besides gorgeous and clever use of language, the power of story wasn’t lost on Heaney and his tellings ofAntigone(titled herein as “The Burial at Thebes,)Beowulf,Philoctetes(titled “The Cure at Troy,”) and others are gripping and...
When his poems were edited in Hellenistic Alexandria, they filled ten scrolls; the poetry of Alcaeus has survived only in quotations: "Fighting men are the city's fortress" and the like, so judging him, rather than his high reputation in antiquity, is like judging Ben Jonson through Bartlet...
5. Apollo Apollowas the name of the son of Zeus and Leto and twin brother of Artemis. He was the god of music, the sun, medicine, and poetry, amongst others. In the U.S., Apollo is well known. It’s the name of a NASA space program between 1961 and 1972 that put the first ...
In ancient Greece an early distinction was made between the poetry chanted by a choir of singers (choral lyrics) and the song that expressed the sentiments of a single poet. The latter, themelos,or song proper, had reached a height of technical perfection in “the… ...
power. Her reiterations in poetry are similarly rife with reflections on themes of longing, eternal love, and the silent observation of the human condition, presenting Selene as not only a celestial observer but also as a timeless confidante to the nocturnally inclined sufferers of love and ...
In Greek mythology, Nyx was a powerful goddess and the embodiment of the night, but when spoken, its negative meaning can't be ignored. Origin: Greek mythology name Meaning: "beautiful voice" Description: Calliope is the name of the muse of epic poetry -- and also the musical instrument ...
Footnote 7 When the term was adopted by Latin authors, it denoted the imitation of Greek constructions in Latin poetry, mainly Virgil.Footnote 8 The humanists took over this ‘linguistic’ meaning of the term, and Ἑλληνισμός/Hellenismus for them referred to the Greek language...
“Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy.” In the passage, Homer is asking one of the muses, possibly Caliope or Euterpe, who were both linked with poetry, to help inspire him ...