Beekes rejects the latter etymology and suggests that a Pre-Greek origin is also possible. The word Muses ( Ancient Greek: Μοῦσαι, romanized: Moûsai) perhaps came from the o-grade of the Proto-Indo-European root * men- (the basic meaning of which is 'put in mind' in verb formations with transitive function and 'have in mind' in those with intransitive function), or from root * men- ('to tower, mountain') since all the most important cult-centres of the Muses were on mountains or hills.
Preserved in the Ghent University Library. In modern figurative usage, a muse is a literal person or supernatural force that serves as someone's source of artistic inspiration.Įtymology Print of Clio, made in the 16th-17th century. Melete, Aoede, and Mneme are the original Boeotian Muses, and Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, and Urania are the nine Olympian Muses. They were considered the source of the knowledge embodied in the poetry, lyric songs, and myths that were related orally for centuries in ancient Greek culture. In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Muses ( Ancient Greek: Μοῦσαι, romanized: Moûsai, Greek: Μούσες, romanized: Múses) are the inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts. Muse, perhaps Clio, reading a scroll (Attic red-figure lekythos, Boeotia, c. For individual human muses see Category:Muses. For other uses, see Muse (disambiguation). For human sources of inspiration, see Muse (source of inspiration).
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