Erato

Erato (Greek Ἐρατώ Erato " the Loving, the lovely "; emphasis on the first or second syllable in Greek on the last syllable ) is in Greek mythology, one of the nine Muses. She is the muse of love poetry of the lyrics, the singing and the dancing. Erato is a daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne.

The nymph Erato from the group of Nereids to have been prophetess of Pan in earlier times, in the Lycosura in Arcadia had a sanctuary where you caught his oracle. Erato was the wife of Arkas. With Arkas they had three sons: Azan, Apheidas and Elatus.

Another Erato is one of the Thespiaden, the fifty daughters of Thespios with which begat sons Heracles; it can also be a confusion with her ​​son, who then called Eratus.

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• 50 photos from representations of Erato in art, in the Warburg Institute Iconographic Database.

Olympic Muses: Erato | Euterpe | Calliope | Clio | Melpomene | Polyhymnia | Terpsichore | Thalia | Urania

Titanic Muses: Aoide | Ark | Melete | mneme | Thelxinoe

Apollonian Muses: Apollonis | Borysthenis | Hypate | Kephiso | Mese | Nete | Polymatheia

Pireische Muses: neilo | Tritone | Asopo | Heptapora | Achelois | Tipoplo

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