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other usesGreek myth (Titan) Mnemosyne (IPAc-en|icon|n|?|'|m|?|z|?|n|i? or IPAc-en|n|?|'|m|?|s|?|n|i; lang-el|M??µ?s???, IPA-el|mn??mosý?n??|pron), source of the word mnemonic , Memory and the name Memnon , as in " Memnon|Memnon of Rhodes " are etymologically related. Mnemosyne is sometimes confused with Mneme or compared with Memoria . was the personification of memory in Greek mythology . The titan (mythology)|titaness was the daughter of Gaia (mythology)|Gaia and Uranus (mythology)|Uranus and the mother of the nine Muse s by Zeus :
Calliope (Epic Poetry )
Clio (History)
Erato (Love Poetry)
Euterpe (Music)
Melpomene (Tragedy)
Polyhymnia (Hymns)
Terpsichore (Dance)
Thalia (muse)|Thalia (Comedy)
Urania (Astronomy)
In Hesiod 's Theogony , kings and poets receive their powers of authoritative speech from their possession of Mnemosyne and their special relationship with the Muses.
Zeus and Mnemosyne slept together for nine consecutive nights, thus birthing the nine Muse s. Mnemosyne also presided over a pool Richard Janko , “Forgetfulness in the Golden Tablets of Memory,” Classical Quarterly 34 (1984) 89–100; see article " Totenpass " for the reconstructed Devotional medal|devotional which instructs the initiated soul through the landscape of Hades , including the pool of Memory. in Hades , counterpart to the river Lethe , according to a series of 4th century BC Greek funerary inscriptions in dactylic hexameter . Dead souls drank from Lethe so they would not remember their past lives when reincarnation|reincarnated . Initiates were encouraged to drink from the river Mnemosyne when they died, instead of Lethe. These inscriptions may have been connected with Orpheus|Orphic poetry (see Zuntz, 1971).
Similarly, those who wished to consult the oracle of Trophonius in Boeotia were made to drink alternately from two springs called "Lethe" and "Mnemosyne". An analogous setup is described in the Myth of Er at the end of Plato 's The Republic (Plato)|Republic .
See also
Commons category|Mnemosyne
Titans in popular culture#Mnemosyne|Titans in popular culture:Mnemosyne
Mnemonic
Meme
Moneta
Genealogy of the Olympians in Greek mythology
Genealogy of the Olympians in Greek mythology
References
Zuntz, Günther. Persephone . Cambridge, 1971.
Notes
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