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  Graduate History Alliance at BC
Actually, Clio is one of the nine muses, personifications of the highest aspirations of art and intellect in Greek Mythology.
The first of the muses in dignity, is the muse of heroic or epic poetry, and is often depicted holding a writing tablet.
The muse of love poetry, from whom comes the term "erotic." She is often shown holding a lyre.
www.bc.edu /bc_org/svp/st_org/gha/GHA_Cliopage1.html   (446 words)

  
  Clio Awards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Clio Awards are given to reward creative excellence in advertising and design.
The awards are named for the Greek muse Clio and were first given in 1959.
Clio is one of the largest awards programs of its kind.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clio_Award   (264 words)

  
 The Unofficial The Muses Biography
The Muses were the Greek goddesses of poetry and art, the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, and the companions of Apollo.
One such example is Calliope, the Muse of Epic Poetry, taking the bard Homer under her wings - with writing the Iliad and the Odyssey as the end results.
Thalia, the Muse of Comedy, was confronted by Wonder Woman when she staged a scheme to flood the streets of Boston with the amnesia drug Lethe, so that people would forget their worries and be happy.
www.dcuguide.com /profile.php?name=muses   (508 words)

  
 The Muses Guild - The Nine Muses of Greek Mythology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
According to the earliest writers the Muses were the inspiring goddesses of songs, and they eventually were portrayed as divinities presiding over the different kinds of poetry and over the arts and sciences.
The Muses are sometimes called the Pierides, but others think that these were nine sisters, daughters of a man called Pierus, who dared challenge the Muses in a contest of song and, having been defeated, were turned into magpies, greenfinches, goldfinches, ducks and other birds.
Even though the Sirens were supposed to be daughters of the Muse of dance Terpsichore and the river god Achelous, still they were prompted by Hera to compete in song with the Muses and naturally couldn't match them.
musesguild.tripod.com /muses   (1256 words)

  
 Arrows - Myth & Culture: Invoking My Muse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Clio's parentage (as is the parentage of all of the Muses) tells us something about what they are.
In ancient Greece where Clio found her place, history was never about facts, it was about tradition and beliefs and the organizing of stories about the past.
Archetypally, Clio is the remembrance of heroic moments in which as James Hillman recalls, "the archetype at the soul's core is revealed" (Healing Fiction).
www.mythandculture.com /weblog/2004/12/invoking-my-muse.html   (872 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Clio-(muse)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In Greek mythology, Clio (Greek: Κλειώ) was the Muse of heroic poetry and history.
The Muse Euterpe or Eutere (rejoicing well or delight), in Greek mythology, was one of the Muses, the daughters of Mnemosyne, fathered by Zeus.
Terpsichore, Muse of Music and Dance, oil on canvas by Jean-Marc Nattier 1739 In Greek mythology, Terpsichore (delight of dancing) was one of the nine Muses, ruling over dance and the dramatic chorus.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Clio_%28muse%29   (495 words)

  
 Muse Melete ~ Muses 1
Euterpe, from the Greek culture, is one of the nine muses of Apollo.
She is also the muse of joy and pleasure and of flute playing and was thought to have invented the double flute, which is her attribute.
The other muses are Calliope, muse of epic poetry; Clio, muse of poetry; Erato, muse of love-poetry and hymns; Melpomene, muse of tragedy; Polyhymnia, muse of mime; Terpsichome, muse of dance; Thalia, muse of comedy; and Urania, muse of astronomy.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Rhodes/9400/muses1.html   (258 words)

  
 Muses -- the streets of the Lower Garden District in New Orleans
Clio had teased Aphrodite's love of Adonis, and in consequence of her wrath, Clio fell in love with Pierius, the son of Magnes and the king of Macedonia.
Melpomene the "Songstress" is the muse of tragedy in spite of her joyous singing and is represented by the tragic mask.
Terpsichore the "Whirler" is the muse of dancing and is often seen dancing with her lyre and a plectrum, an instrument used for plucking stringed instruments.
www.coliseumsquare.org /new_orleans_pages/muses.html   (651 words)

  
 Clio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Clio is one of the nine muses, personifications of the highest aspirations of art and intellect in Greek mythology.
Calliope--The first of the muses in dignity, is the muse of heroic or epic poetry, and is often depicted holding a writing tablet.
Erato--The muse of love poetry, from whom comes the term "erotic." She is often shown holding a lyre.
www.tamu-commerce.edu /history/Clio.htm   (425 words)

  
 Clio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Clio is one of the nine muses, personifications of the highest aspirations of art and intellect in Greek mythology.
Calliope--The first of the muses in dignity, is the muse of heroic or epic poetry, and is often depicted holding a writing tablet.
Erato--The muse of love poetry, from whom comes the term "erotic." She is often shown holding a lyre.
www7.tamu-commerce.edu /history/Clio.htm   (425 words)

  
 Clio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses of the word Clio, see Clio (disambiguation).
In Greek mythology, Clio (Greek: Κλειώ) or Kleio is the muse of heroic poetry and history.
Like all the muses, she is a daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clio_(muse)   (167 words)

  
 The nine muses
In Greek mythology, the nine muses were the patron goddesses of the arts.
In Greek and Roman mythology, the nine muses were the daughters of Zeus, the king of the gods, and Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory.
Traditionally, the muses were believed to reside on Mt. Helicon, in Boeotia, Greece, and in fact they were the center of a cult there.
mo.essortment.com /theninemuses_rxjj.htm   (340 words)

  
 The Muse in Mythology
She is the Muse of lyric love poetry and mime, usually depicted holding a lyre.
Clio is another one of the nine Muses.
Muse of Rhetoric and of vocal Music lyric poetry and sacred hymns, and the inventor of the lyre.
waltm.net /muse.htm   (401 words)

  
 A Canonical Poem to the Nine Muses (Lunar Calendar, Manifesting Cycle: The Nine Angelic Orders and the Solar Angels)
Rightly or wrongly, we are pronouncing Melete as "MEH-leh-TEE," Eunomia as "You-NO-mee-uh," Urania as "You-RAH-nyuh," Melpomene as "mel-PO-meh-NEE," Polymnia as "Po-LIM-nyuh," Astraea as "Ah-STRAY-yuh," Mneme as "NAY-mee," Erato as "eh-RAH-to," Calliope as "Kah-LYE-oh-PEE," Clio as "KLEE-oh," Irene as "Eye-REE-nee," Aoide as "OW-ih-DEE," Thalia as "THAH-lyuh," Euterpe as "You-TER-pee," and Terpsichore as "Terp-SIH-Koh-REE."
Polymnia: Also known as Polyhymnia, she is the Muse of Lyric Poetry and inventor of the lyre, whose strings may be equated to the vocal cords of the throat.
It is the realm of Clio and the Dominions.
www.artesmagicae.com /musespoem.htm   (3565 words)

  
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As a muse, she is an immortal who has the ability to inspire greatness in mortals.
If Clio is brought low, she simply disappears, only to reform the next night of a new moon at full strength.
Clio rather enjoys physical combat, as she is a master of all known forms of marital arts, and although not specialized in any weapons, she knows the use of all documented types and is a grand master in all forms of martial arts styles.
www.fortunecity.com /rivendell/shadows/472/clio.html   (1938 words)

  
 The Muses - Questions, Answers, Fun Facts, Information
Urania was the muse of astronomy...often depicted pointing towards a globe of the cosmos with her wand.
Calliope is the muse of epic poetry, and is known as the chief muse.
Clio is the Muse of History that is depicted holding a half-open parchment.
www.funtrivia.com /en/Humanities/The-Muses-4549.html   (1394 words)

  
 Francis-Noël Thomas: Image as Argument: Vermeer's "Artist in his Studio"
Clio belongs to no particular human place; her "art" is of high and unchanging significance.
The Muse, as opposed to a girl dressed in a costume, requires arcane academic concepts to be seen at all.
The muse stands for a concept of "history painting" given every honor by academic theory, but common experience can be neither created nor annihilated by theory, while the subjects that belong to "history painting" are wholly dependant on "theory" of a sort that is wholly unnecessary to anything else.
home.att.net /~francis-noel/thirdinternational.htm   (2277 words)

  
 Muse Summary
Invoking the Muses is the price the poet pays in order for his song to be called veracious and in order that he may breathe the imperishable memory and knowledge that the Muses alone bestow.
The Muses Clio, Euterpe and Thalia, by Eustache Le Sueur
The Muses were also occasionally referred to as "Corycides", or "Corycian nymphs" after a cave on Mount Parnassos, called the Corycian Cave.
www.bookrags.com /Muse   (2047 words)

  
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Muses who attempt to bridge the gap and "multi-major," however, are often frowned upon or even scorned as dilettantes who are either disappating their writer's talents in too many directions at once or who are dangerously under-skilled in one (or all!) of their chosen fields.
Known muses range from standard classic humanoid forms to lizards to flying blue sheep to were-dragons to Pokemons to dark dopplegangers to cats to bats to ravens to androids to vampire queens to evolving fictives to Mary Sues of all flavors and beyond.
To qualify, your muse MUST have appeared in a story on the SCML or in a round robin, preferably one archived on Subreality Central (or in queue to be archived, at least).
www.subreality.com /sc/musefaq.doc   (1535 words)

  
 Clio
he village of Clio, named after the ancient muse "Clio", from an altitude of 350 meters has a view over the beach and its origins as in the surroundings of the village there are ruins of ancient towns.
There was found accidentally at/in Heraklio (ancient town) of Italy a fresco representing the Muse, protector of the History and the Rhetoric.
The natives of the ancient towns, we mentioned above, during the dark years of the Middle Age and before the conquest made by the Turkish in 1453, had to move at the place, where Clio is situated today, because of the pirates.
www.lesvos.net /island/villages/n_clio.htm   (189 words)

  
 Alterna "Greek" Break
Lillith showed Clio around the academy for the next hour taking her to the classroom where the cadets were slowly trickling in and reluctantly taking their seats for the history lesson that morning, the music room, the dorm, library, courtyard and stables, and ended the tour in the gym.
Clio listened to the lesson, amazed at the way they looked at history when, in her time everyone would consider the lesson to be part of a mythology class.
Clio did not know where the horse was running to, but she assumed that since it was created by Ares, it meant that the animal was probably heading where Ares would be.
www.lookout2.com /fanfic/greek.html   (13057 words)

  
 Muse101: Who Is Thalia, Muse of Comedy?
Muses are Archetypal figures who stimulate various forms of creative writing.
There are still more Muses; some overlooked in the original listings (like Cindy, Muse of Other) and others even now being born.
The Muses are also called the Graces, as when they attend the festivals on Olympus and entertain and inspire the other gods with their wit and charm.
amusedmuse.tripod.com /muse101.html   (567 words)

  
 Muse | TutorGig.co.uk Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Musing.] [F. muser to loiter or trifle, orig., to stand with open mouth, fr.
To be absent in mind; to be so occupied in study or contemplation as not to observe passing scenes or things present; to be in a brown study.
Inspirational Leadership: Henry V and the Muse of Fire - Timeless Insi..
www.tutorgig.co.uk /dict.jsp?keywords=Muse   (466 words)

  
 The Muses: Clio, Euterpe and Thalia by LE SUEUR, Eustache
The muses are the goddesses of creative inspiration in poetry, song and other arts, they are the companions of Apollo.
The muses were originally nymphs who presided over springs that had the power to give inspiration, especially Aganippe and Hippocrene on Mount Helicon and the Castilian spring on Mount Parnassus.
Melpomene, the muse of tragedy (horn, tragic masks, sword or dagger, crown held in hand, sceptres lying at feet).
www.wga.hu /html/l/le_sueur/muses.html   (253 words)

  
 Online Etymology Dictionary
The names of the nine Muses, daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne (q.v.), and their specialties are traditionally: Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (love poetry, lyric art), Euterpe (music, especially flute), Melpomene (tragedy), Polymnia (hymns), Terpsichore (dance), Thalia (comedy), Urania (astronomy).
c.1475, santren "to muse, be in reverie," of uncertain origin.
musel (12c.), from muse "muzzle," from Gallo-Romance *musa "snout," of unknown origin, possibly related to L. morsus "bite." Meaning "projecting part of the head of an animal" is from c.1410; sense of "open end of a firearm" first recorded 1566.
www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=muse   (947 words)

  
 Clio (muse) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In (The mythology of the ancient Greeks) Greek mythology, Clio was the (In ancient Greek mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of an art or science) Muse of heroic poetry and history.
She had one son, (Any of numerous bulbous perennial herbs) Hyacinth, with the King of (Landlocked republic on the Balkan Peninsula; achieved independence from Yugoslavia in 1991) Macedonia, (additional info and facts about Pierus) Pierus.
A genus of polar (additional info and facts about pteropod) pteropods was named after her.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cl/clio_(muse).htm   (129 words)

  
 C L I O
Clio, a home store located in SoHo, NYC, features a stylish and eclectic mix of tabletop items and home furnishings from around the world.
Clio, the "Muse of History" in Greek mythology, opened its doors in July 2002.
With the opening of Clio, they have realized their dream and are happy as clams.
www.clio-home.com /about.php   (187 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Currant Events : Xanth #28 (Xanth): Books: Piers Anthony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Clio was tidying up her office, as she did every century or so even if it didn't really need it.
On Mount Parnassus Clio the Muse of History begins to write the twenty-eighth Chronicle of Xanth, only to find the tome exists, which means somehow she already has written it.
Clio is a fine muse although skirting the edges of her magical world.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0765304074?v=glance   (1533 words)

  
 Invocation of a Muse
Although the concept of a muse developed from ancient Greek literature, the muse has come to be more of an abstract concept, which is just as well since the traditional Greek muses leave a lot to be desired.
After the initial "birthing/nurturing" period, muses may be called upon by anyone who is aware of their existence.
The traditional muses were the daughters of Mnemosyne (the personification of Memory) and Zeus (the personification of Testosterone).
www.magma.ca /~yeti/muse.htm   (852 words)

  
 Vermeer: The Art of Painting, The Art of Painting - NGA
The artist observes his model, who is dressed as Clio, the muse of history.
As he records her image carefully on his canvas, he is not so much the recipient of the muse's inspiration as the agent through whom she takes on life and significance.
Clio wears a crown of laurel on her head to denote honor, glory, and eternal life.
www.nga.gov /exhibitions/verm_2.htm   (580 words)

  
 Elysium Gates-Historia Muse
Muses are primarily responsible for generating contests, awards, and activities to promote the Area's Charitable Project.
Muse Clio is the traditional Muse of History.
The Muse position of Historia is currently being held by a wonderful person who has years of net volunteer service behind them.
www.elysiumgates.com /historia/0/muse.html   (156 words)

  
 The Laughing Muse
The nine Muses were called into creation by the god Apollo, the lord of the arts, master of the hunt, and charioteer of the sun.
When her aunts were all busy, the Laughing Muse would go find her demi-cousin Eris; and together they would diddle aimlessly with the Cosmos, causing all sorts of merry hell.
The Muses let him think that he was in charge of them because it was easier than trying to get him to understand the truth of his situation.
members.tripod.com /~Zylyn/TLM.html   (997 words)

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