Apollonis

Apollonis (Ancient Greek: Ἀπoλλωνίς), meaning "Daughter of Apollon", was one of the three younger Mousai Apollonides (Muses) in Greek mythology and daughters of Apollo who were worshipped in Delphi where the Temple of Apollo and the Oracle were located. The three sisters, Cephisso, Apollonis, and Borysthenis, are also known as Nētē, Mesē, and Hypatē where their names are synonymous with those of the lowest, middle, and highest chords of a lyre, further characterizing the Muses as the daughters of Apollo. There are three known sets of Muses associated with Greek mythology. The Apollonide Muses should not be confused with the Olympian Nine or the Titanid Three (later four).

Apollonis
Muse and Greek Goddess of the Inspiration of Literature, Science and the Arts.
Symbol	lyre
Mount	Delphi
Genealogy
Parents	Apollo
Siblings	Cephisso and Borysthenis or Nētē, Mesē, and Hypatē
Equivalents
Roman equivalent	Camenae

Additional Muses

Nine Olympian Muses

The Nine Olympian Muses were goddesses of the arts, sciences and knowledge, remembering all things that had come to pass. Their parents were Zeus and Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory.

• In Order Of Birth<refApollod. 1.3.2
• Calliope (/kəˈlaɪ.əpi/ or kə-LY-ə-pee; Ancient Greek: Καλλιόπη; Kalliopē "beautiful-voiced") was the Muse of Epic Poetry and Rhetoric.
• Clio (/ˈklaɪ.oʊ/; Greek: Κλειώ), also spelled Kleio, was the Muse of History.
• Melpomene (/mɛlˈpɒmniː/; Greek: Μελπομένη) was the Muse of Tragedy.
• Euterpe (/juːˈtɜːrpiː/; Greek: Eὐτέρπη) was the Muse of Lyric Poetry.
• Erato (/ˈɛrətoʊ/; Ancient Greek: Ἐρατώ) was the Muse of Erotic Poetry.
• Terpsichore (/tərpˈsɪkəriː/; Greek: Τερψιχόρη) was the Muse of Music and Dancing.
• Urania (/jʊˈreɪniə/; Ancient Greek: Οὐρανία) was the Muse of Astronomy.
• Thalia (/əˈlaɪə/; Ancient Greek: Θάλεια, Θαλία) was the Muse of Comedy and Idyllic Poetry.
• Polyhymnia (/pɒliˈhɪmniə/; Greek: Πολυύμνια, Πολύμνια) was the Muse of Sacred Hymns and Harmony.

Titan Muses

The Mousai Titanides (Titan Muses) were elder Muses consisting of three or four Titan goddesses of music.

• Melete- Practice
• Aoide- Song
• Mneme- Memory
• Mnemosyne- Memory

Pierides Muses

There are varying stories about the Pierides Muses.

• "PIERIDES is the patronymic of the nine daughters of King Pieros of Emathia. They challenged the Muses to a contest of song, which they lost, and the Muses, in revenge, changed the presumptuous maidens into magpies (Met V.294-678; OM V.1763-1832). The Muses themselves are also called Pierides because their most ancient seat of worship was in Pieria. They were said to be the daughters of Jupiter and Mnemosyne, but their father was also said to be Pieros of Macedonia. Pierides is then either their byname of location or their patronymic."
• "*Pieri/des), and sometimes also in the singular, Pieris, a surname of the Muses, which they derived from Pieria, near Mount Olympus, where they were first worshipped among the Thracians (Hes. Th. 53; Hor. Carm. 4.3.13; Pind. P. 6.49). Some derived the name from an ancient king Pierus, who is said to have emigrated from Thrace into Boeotia, and established their worship at Thespiae. (Paus. 9.29.2; Eur. Med. 831; Pind. O. 11.100; Ov. Tr. 5.3. 10; Cic. De Nat. Deor. 3.21."

Apollonides Muses

The Apollonides Muses are the three daughters associated as being the daughters of Apollo and are known by two name variants.

• Nētē
• Mesē
• Hypatē

and

• Cephisso
• Apollonis
• Borysthenis

Muses of Helicon

According to Pausanias in the later 2nd century AD, there were three original Muses worshiped on Mount Helicon in Boeotia. In later tradition, four Muses were recognised.

• Thelxinoë
• Aoedē
• Arche
• Meletē

Literary References

• "Now Zeus wedded Hera and begat Hebe, Ilithyia, and Ares,1 but he had intercourse with many women, both mortals and immortals. By Themis, daughter of Sky, he had daughters, the Seasons, to wit, Peace, Order, and Justice; also the Fates, to wit, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropus; by Dione he had Aphrodite; by Eurynome, daughter of Ocean, he had the Graces, to wit, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia; by Styx he had Persephone; and by Memory(Mnemosyne) he had the Muses, first Calliope, then Clio, Melpomene, Euterpe, Erato, Terpsichore, Urania, Thalia, and Polymnia."
• "Clio fell in love with Pierus, son of Magnes, in consequence of the wrath of Aphrodite, whom she had twitted with her love of Adonis; and having met him she bore him a son Hyacinth, for whom Thamyris, the son of Philammon and a nymph Argiope, conceived a passion, he being the first to become enamored of males. But afterwards Apollo loved Hyacinth and killed him involuntarily by the cast of a quoit.12 And Thamyris, who excelled in beauty and in minstrelsy, engaged in a musical contest with the Muses, the agreement being that, if he won, he should enjoy them all, but that if he should be vanquished he should be bereft of what they would. So the Muses got the better of him and bereft him both of his eyes and of his minstrelsy."
• "Also he came to the bed of all-nourishing Demeter, and she bore white-armed Persephone whom Aidoneus carried off from her mother; but wise Zeus gave her to him. [915] And again, he loved Mnemosyne with the beautiful hair: and of her the nine gold-crowned Muses were born who delight in feasts and the pleasures of song."
• Frogs

Rightly so, you busybody.
the Muses of the fine lyre love us
And so does horn-crested Pan, playing his reed pipe.
And the harpist Apollo delights in us as well,
On account of the reed, which as a bridge for his lyre
I nourish in the water of the pond.
Brekekekex koax koax.

• Servant of Agathon

Standing on the threshold; solemnly
Silence! oh, people! [40] keep your mouths sedately shut! The chorus of the Muses is moulding songs at my master's hearth. Let the winds hold their breath in the silent Aether! Let the azure waves cease murmuring on the shore!

• "The meaning of παραλαβών is quite obscure: various renderings are “having taken to himself,” “received,” “grasped,” “inherited.” The word μουσεῖον, originally a haunt of the Muses, came to mean a school of art or literature. The fault appears to consist in the addition of τῆς φύσεως, but it is difficult to see why. Cope confesses his inability to understand the passage. Jebb translates: “he does not say, ‘having taken to himself a school of the Muses,’ but ‘to Nature's school of the Muses.’” "
• "There are countless paths of divine song for one who has received gifts from the Pierian Muses, [5] and upon whose songs the violet-eyed maidens, the garland-bearing Graces, cast honor."
• "Did it then happen that ... [30] the swift-footed messenger [of Zeus] then killed [the son of Earth] with mighty offspring ... Argus? Or was it that ... unutterable cares? [35] Or did the Pierian Muses bring about ... rest from troubles ... ? For me, the most secure [path?] is the one which ... when she arrived at the flowery banks [40] of the Nile, [gadfly-driven] Io, bearing the child ... Epaphus."