Melete

"Contemplation, ponder." One of the three Elder Muses, together with Aoede (Song) and Mneme (Memory). They are children of Uranus and Gaea and belong to the Titan generation of gods.

Melete is also mentioned as one of the four daughters of Zeus by Plusia, along with Aoede, Arche, and Thelxinoë.1

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References

Notes

  1. Cicero. On the Nature of the Gods iii, 21.

Source

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece ix, 24.2.