Mneme

"Memory." I.e. memory, was one of the three Muses that were in early times worshiped at Ascra in Boeotia.1 But there seems to have also been a tradition that Mneme was the mother of the Muses, for Ovid2 calls them Mnemonides; unless this be only an abridged form for the daughters of Mnemosyne.

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece ix, 29.2.
  2. Metamorphoses v, 268

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.