Mnemosyne (mythology)
Mnemosyne ( ancient Greek Μνημοσύνη Mnēmosýnē , from μνήμη mnḗmē , German 'memory' , compare Latin memoria ) is a figure of Greek mythology as well as a river in the underworld , whose water, in contrast to the Lethe, did not cause forgetting, but memory.
relationship
Giulio Romano : Apollo and the nine muses
Mnemosyne is the daughter of Uranos and Gaia , so belongs to the titans and is considered the goddess of memory.
Mnemosyne is the mother of the nine muses she gave birth to to her nephew Zeus in Pierien am Olympus . Hesiod relates that the couple - far from the rest of the gods - reunited for nine nights.
Elsewhere there are only three muses that Mnemosyne is said to have given birth. Sometimes these are also called "Mneiai", a plural form of their mother's name.
Pedigree of the Titans
| chaos | → | Gaia | → | Uranus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Family of gods | of the titans | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oceanus | Kreios | Hyperion | Theia | Themis | Phoibe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kronos | Koios | Iapetos | Rhea | Mnemosyne | Tethys | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
literature
- Paul Weizsäcker : Mnemosyne . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 3076-3080 ( digitized version ).
- Karl Philipp Moritz : Mnemosyne, the mother of all knowledge and thought. In: Uwe Fleckner (Ed.): The treasure chamber of the Mnemosyne. With a picture essay by Sarkis . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1995, ISBN 3-364-00358-0 , p. 130.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. Pausanias 9,39,8
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 1,1,3
- ↑ Hesiod , Theogony 53-57
- ↑ Pausanias 9.29.2
Web links
Commons : Mnemosyne - collection of images, videos and audio files
