Mnemosyne · Atlas

spoken of as

1 expression

Memory“Mnemosyne”1 mention

Let us, then, say that this is the gift of Memory, the mother of the Muses, and that whenever we wish to remember anything we see or hear or think of in our own minds, we hold this wax under the perceptions and thoughts and imprint them upon it, just as we make impressions from seal rings;

theaetetus ¶

in the texts

TheogonyClassical · Greek

Goddess of memory, mother of the nine Muses by Zeus.

and of her the nine gold-crowned Muses were born who delight in feasts and the pleasures of song.

theogony ¶

Hymn 4 to HermesClassical · Greek

Mnemosyne is the mother of the Muses and the first deity honored in Hermes' lyre song to Apollo.

First among the gods he honored Mnemosyne, mother of the Muses, in his song;

hymn 4 to hermes ¶

IsthmeanClassical · Greek

Goddess of memory, mother of the Muses, invoked in connection with the waters of Dirce at Thebes.

I shall give him to drink the pure water of Dirce, which the deep-waisted daughters of golden-robed Mnemosyne brought forth beside the fine-walled gates of Cadmus.

chapter 6 ¶

NemeanClassical · Greek

Goddess of memory, mother of the Muses, credited with granting the 'recompense' of glorious song.

if, by the grace of Mnemosyne with her splendid headdress, one finds a recompense for toils in glorious song.

chapter 7 ¶

TheaetetusClassical · Greek

Personified Memory, mother of the Muses, credited as the giver of the waxen faculty in the soul used to explain remembering and forgetting.

Let us, then, say that this is the gift of Memory, the mother of the Muses, and that whenever we wish to remember anything we see or hear or think of in our own minds, we hold this wax under the perceptions and thoughts and imprint them upon it, just as we make impressions from seal rings;

theaetetus ¶