Sonny_Lu: Muses, the goddesses

· The history

The Muses in Greek mythology are goddesses who inspire poetry, traditional music,

literature and dance. There are nine members in the Muses who are the daughters of

Zeus and Mnemosyne.

· The adventures

In one myth the Muses judged a contest between Apollo and Marsyas. In other myth,

they have a singing contest between Thamyris and Muses, in the end the Muses won

and punished Thamyris by blinding him and robbing him of his singing ability.

· The relationships

Father: Zeus Mother: Mnemosyne

· The appearance

All the members in Muses, they are beautiful and sexy women, golden hair, plump body

and exquisite skin.

There are some images:

· Analyse any symbols associated with the creature

Emblem of the Muses:

Calliope - epic poetry; Clio - history; Euterpe - flutes and lyric poetry; Thalia - comedy and

pastoral poetry; Melpomene - tragedy; Terpsichore - dance; Erato - love poetry;

Polyhymnia - sacred poetry; Urania astronomy.

· Interpret it’s evolution through history and popular culture.

Nowadays, the Muses always used in band name ( Nine Muses for Elle Korea ) (

· List three sports this Greek myth/god be used to symbolise and why?

Dance, the Muses stand for dance, there are many images about them.

All the members have their exclusive instrument. All of them are masters of this

instrument.

Singing, one of the strongest abilities is singing. We can find many mythes mentioning

singing contests.

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