The 9 muses
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- 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
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