Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Figures

    Calliope

    deity figure · 6 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages

    Muse Calliope · daughter of Zeus · his mother · ingenious Muse

    in the texts

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Muse and mother of Orpheus who petitions Zeus to transform the grieving animals into men.

    so that his mother Calliope, through her goodwill and love toward her son, having asked of Zeus, changed their bodies into the form of men, but their souls remained such as they were before.
    oration 32

    TheogonyClassical · Greek

    One of the nine Muses, named as the chiefest of them, who attends upon worshipful princes and grants them eloquence.

    These things, then, the Muses sang who dwell on Olympus, nine daughters begotten by great Zeus, Cleio and Euterpe, Thaleia, Melpomene and Terpsichore, and Erato and Polyhymnia and Urania and Calliope, who is the chiefest of them all, for she attends on worshipful princes:
    theogony

    Hymn 31 to HeliosClassical · Greek

    Muse invoked at the opening as the singer who should begin the hymn to Helios.

    And now, O Muse Calliope, daughter of Zeus, begin to sing of glowing Helios whom mild-eyed Euryphaessa, the far-shining one, bare to the Son of Earth and starry Heaven.
    hymn 31 to helios

    De Rerum NaturaHellenistic · Latin

    The Muse of epic poetry, invoked by Lucretius for poetic guidance.

    With thee my guide!
    chapter 6
    Do thou, Calliope, ingenious Muse,
    chapter 6
    Solace of mortals and delight of gods,
    chapter 6

    OlympianClassical · Greek

    Muse of epic poetry and eloquence, named as important to the Locrians settled in the west.

    For unswerving Exactitude rules the city of the Western Locrians, and Calliope is important to them, and bronze-armored Ares.
    chapter 10

    PhaedrusClassical · Greek

    Eldest of the Muses, associated with philosophical life in the cicada legend.

    and to Calliope, the eldest of the Muses, and to Urania who is next to her, they make report of those who pass their lives in philosophy and who worship these Muses who are most concerned with heaven and with thought divine and human and whose music is the sweetest.
    phaedrus