As most are aware, it is generally accepted that there are nine Muses in Greek Myth. Sure, there are versions in which there are only three, versions with four, and versions with seven, but let's just work off that there were nine, okay?
Anyway, by the time the various authors of the stories and legends decided to settle on one version (if that's how it happened... I'm thinking there was some bloodshed involved... it was a religion, after all), there were nine. These nine muses were, as follows:
Calliope - Muse of Epic Poetry
Clio - Muse of History
Erato - Muse of Lyrical Poetry
Euterpe - Muse of Music
Melpomene - Muse of Tragedy
Polyhymnia - Muse of Choral Poetry
Terpischore - Muse of Dance
Thalia - Muse of Comedy
Urania - Muse of Astrology
These nine goddesses were the daughters of Zeus (of whom everyone should be familiar with) and Mnemosyne, the Greek goddess of memory.
So, what does this have to with anything?
Well, it's how the name for a little blogging group I helped start came out: The Tenth Daughter of Memory.
What do we do there? We write blogs based on a common theme or topic that is picked by the "winner" of the previous theme or topic. It's fun, creates high-quality stuff, and affords bragging rights to the blogger that takes the most votes. More importantly, it helps inspire people who suffer from writer's block and (for those familiar with my rants) "lack of writer's mood."
Come try it out... if you're not afraid. There's a new topic up today.
2 comments:
nice. i actually did not know the story behind thte name...and its a lot of fun so if you are reading this, you should do it!
Very interesting. I'm looking forward to reading the entries on the 10th daughter websit and maybe joining in at some point. Read your movie reviews (love them) and I have to say I'm not a fan of Clint Eastwood's direction but I loved Gran Torino.
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