The nine muses
Daughters of Zeus
Inspiring of mortals
And nurturers of the
arts
The eighth was,
The divine Thalia,
Flourishing, in bloom,
Was the muse of comedy
and idyllic poetry
A comic mask in her
hand
The praises of Thalia,
rustic goddess
And in her songs
flourish through time
The nine muses
Daughters of Zeus
Inspiring of mortals
And nurturers of the
arts
The seventh was,
The divine Terpsichore,
Delight of dancing,
Muse of choral songs
and dance
A lyre in her hand
Accompanies the
dancers
Terpsichore muse of
dance
Mother of the sirens
The nine muses
Daughters of Zeus
Inspiring of mortals
And nurturers of the
arts
The sixth was,
The divine Polyhymnia,
The one of many hymns,
Was the Muse of sacred
poetry and sacred hymns
Of eloquence and
pantomime
In her long cloak and
classical pose
Polyhymnia was a
serious, pensive and meditative muse
The nine muses
Daughters of Zeus
Inspiring of mortals
And nurturers of the
arts
The fifth was,
The divine Melpomène,
The one that is
melodious,
Was firstly the muse
of singing
To celebrate with
dance and song
Then she became the
muse of tragedy
And hid behind a
tragic mask
A knife or club in her
hand
Creator of beautiful
lyrical phrases
Melpomène muse of
Horace
The nine muses
Daughters of Zeus
Inspiring of mortals
And nurturers of the
arts
The fourth was,
The divine Euterpe,
Rejoicing well,
Was firstly the muse
of music
Then of Lyrical poetry
A double flute in her
hand
Euterpe the Giver of
delight
The nine muses
Daughters of Zeus
Inspiring of mortals
And nurturers of the
arts
The third was,
The divine Erato,
Desired and lovely,
Was the muse of the
lyric poets
A golden arrow in her
hand
Muse of love verse
And of Erotic poetry
Erato the muse who
charms the sight
And inspires love in
everybody
The nine muses
Daughters of Zeus
Inspiring of mortals
And nurturers of the
arts
The second was,
The divine Clio
The maker of fame,
Was the muse of
history
A parchment scroll in
her hands
Clio was the
proclaimer
The nine muses
Daughters of Zeus
Inspiring of mortals
And nurturers of the
arts
The first was,
The divine Calliope,
Beautiful-voiced,
Was the muse of the
epic poets
A writing tablet in
her hand
Calliope was Homer's
muse
Inspiration for the
Iliad
Divine influence of
the Odyssey
Scylla of Greek myth
Great monster of the
sea
Terror of the seas
A fearful monster
The scourge of sailors
Believed in later times,
Scylla was thought
To be a rock in the
Straits of Messina
Phoebe Goddess of the moon
Radiant, bright,
prophetic
Titan goddess Phoebe
With an oracular
intellect
Reigned unchallenged
at Delphi
And Gold-Crowned was epithet
Greek Goddess Artemis
The virgin Goddess
Of the hunt and the moon
Daughter of Zeus and
Leto
Twin sister of Phoebus
Sun God Apollo
Greek God of light
God of prophesy
Poetry, music and
healing
Son of Zeus and Leto
Twin brother of Artemis
Sun God Phoebus
Greek God of light
God of prophesy
Poetry, music and
healing
Son of Zeus and Leto
Twin brother of
Artemis
Greek Demeter
Guardian of the
harvest
Goddess of the corn
Mother of Persephone
Goddess of fertility
Protector of matrimony
Acheron, the river of pain,
One of the five rivers
of hades
Where Charon the
ferryman
Plied his morbid trade
The powerful Titan’s
Giants of Greek
Mythology
Born of Uranus and
Gaea
Rulers of the earth
Brutally overthrown
By the Olympian Gods
The Gorgons
The sisters three
Sthenno and Euryale
Had immortality
Medusa by far
Was most beautiful
But she was
Merely mortal
The god Poseidon
And the lovely Medusa
In love, desecrated
The temple of Athena
In revenge
Furious goddess Athena
Cruelly punished
The beautiful Medusa
Turning to snakes
Her lovely hair
Making her ugly
With a fatal stare
Her visage
Hideous to look upon
Mean death
From Medusa the gorgon
With scaly skin
And serpent hair
She awaiting victims
In her lair
One night
While Medusa slumbered
Brave Perseus struck
And her head was severed
Even after death
To look upon her
Would petrify
Any befalling her stare
Brave prince Perseus
After slaying Medusa
Delivered the head
To a grateful Athena
The Sibylline Oracles,
Oracular
utterances scribed
In
Greek hexameters
Ascribed
to the Sibyls,
Prophetesses
who uttered
The
divine revelations
In a state of frenzy
Oracle of Dione and Zeus
At
Dodona in Epirus
Apollo’s
temple at Didyma
On
the coast of Asia Minor,
Or
at Corinth and Bassae
In
the Peloponnese,
And
Delos and Aegina
In
the Aegean Sea
