According to the 2nd-century AD travel writer Pausanias, Aoede /eɪˈiːdiː/ (Ancient Greek: Ἀοιδή, lit. 'Song')[1] was thought to be one of the three Muses at Mount Helicon, alongside Mneme and Melete.[2] He writes that the Macedonian Pierus replaced them with the nine Muses.[3] According to Robin Hard, the names Pausanias gives for these three Muses indicate that it is improbable he "is referring to a genuinely ancient tradition".[4] In De Natura Deorum by the Roman writer Cicero, Aoede is described as one of the four oldest Muses, alongside Thelxinoe, Arche, and Melete.[5]
She lends her name to the moon Jupiter XLI, also called Aoede, which orbits the planet Jupiter.[6]
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edit- Cicero, Marcus Tullius, De Natura Deorum in Cicero: On the Nature of the Gods. Academics, translated by H. Rackham, Loeb Classical Library No. 268, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, first published 1933, revised 1951. ISBN 978-0-674-99296-2. Harvard University Press. Internet Archive.
- Hard, Robin, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology", London and New York, Routledge, 2004. ISBN 020344633X. doi:10.4324/9780203446331.
- Pausanias, Description of Greece, Volume IV: Books 8.22-10 (Arcadia, Boeotia, Phocis and Ozolian Locri), translated by W. H. S. Jones, Loeb Classical Library No. 297, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1935. ISBN 978-0-674-99328-0. Harvard University Press. Perseus Digital Library.
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