Calliope
Calliope (engraving by Virgil Solis from P. Ovidii Metamorphosis from 1562).
Kalliope (sculpture by Leonhard Kern , around 1640)
Calliope ( ancient Greek Καλλιόπη Kalliopē or Καλλιόπεια Kalliopeia , the beautiful voice , Latin Calliopa ) is one of the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne . She is the muse of epic poetry, science , philosophy and string playing, as well as the muse of the epic and elegy . With Apollo she has the sons Orpheus and Linos .
Calliope is the oldest and wisest of the nine classical muses and was therefore the judge in the dispute between Aphrodite and Persephone over the Adonis . This episode - The Judgment of the Calliope - is shown in the intermezzo of Hans Werner Henze's opera Die Bassariden .
Her attribute is the writing board.
literature
- Aliki Kauffmann-Samaras: Calliope (II) . In: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Volume V, Zurich / Munich 1990, pp. 936-937.
- Christine Walde : Calliope. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 6, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01476-2 , Sp. 199.
- Georg Weicker : Calliope. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 2, Stuttgart 1919, column 1654 f.
Web links
Wiktionary: Kalliope - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Commons : Kalliope - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Calliope in the Theoi Project
- approx. 40 photos of depictions of Calliope in art, in the Warburg Institute Iconographic Database .