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Mnemosyne (1881), a Pre-Raphaelite interpretation of the goddess by Dante Gabriel Rossetti[1]! Greek deities! series! Titans! Olympians! Aquatic deities! Chthonic deities! Personied concepts! Other deities! Titans! The Twelve Titans:! Oceanus and Tethys,! Hyperion and Theia,! Coeus and Phoebe,! Cronus and Rhea,! Mnemosyne, Themis,! Crius, Iapetus! Children of Oceanus:! Oceanids, Potamoi, Calypso! Children of Hyperion:! Helios, Selene, Eos! Daughters of Coeus:! Leto and Asteria! Sons of Iapetus:! Atlas, Prometheus,! Epimetheus, Menoetius! Sons of Crius:! Astraeus, Pallas, Perses! v t e! Mnemosyne (/n"#m$z"ni%/ or /n"#m$s"ni/; Greek: M&'()*+&', pronounced,[mn-%mos.%n-%]), source of the word mnemonic,[2] was the personication of memory in Greek mythology. The titaness was the daughter of Gaia and Uranus and the mother of the nine Muses by Zeus:! Calliope (Epic Poetry)! Clio (History)! Erato (Love Poetry)! Euterpe (Music)! Melpomene (Tragedy)! Polyhymnia (Hymns)! Terpsichore (Dance)! Thalia (Comedy)! Urania (Astronomy)! In Hesiod's Theogony, kings and poets receive their powers of authoritative speech from their possession of Mnemosyne and their special relationship with the Muses.! Zeus and Mnemosyne slept together for nine consecutive nights, thus birthing the nine Muses. Mnemosyne also presided over a pool[3] in Hades, counterpart to the river Lethe, according to a series of 4th century BC Greek funerary inscriptions in dactylic hexameter. Dead souls drank from Lethe so they would not remember their past lives when

reincarnated. Initiates were encouraged to drink from the river Mnemosyne when they died, instead of Lethe. These inscriptions may have been connected with Orphic poetry (see Zuntz, 1971).! Similarly, those who wished to consult the oracle of Trophonius in Boeotia were made to drink alternately from two springs called "Lethe" and "Mnemosyne". An analogous setup is described in the Myth of Er at the end of Plato's Republic.! Contents ,[hide],! 1 See also! 2 Genealogy of the Olympians in Greek mythology! 3 References! 4 Notes! See also[edit]!

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Zuntz, Gnther. Persephone. Cambridge, 1971.! Notes[edit]!

Jump up ^ Collection of the Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, Rossetti Archive.! Jump up ^ Memory and the name Memnon, as in "Memnon of Rhodes" are etymologically related. Mnemosyne is sometimes confused with Mneme or compared with Memoria.! Jump up ^ Richard Janko, Forgetfulness in the Golden Tablets of Memory, Classical Quarterly 34 (1984) 89100; see article "Totenpass" for the reconstructed devotional which instructs the initiated soul through the landscape of Hades, including the pool of Memory.! [show] v t e! Greek mythology (deities)! [show] v t e! Greek religion and mythology!