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Mnemosyne   Listen
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Mnemosyne  n.  (Class Myth.) The goddess of memory and the mother of the Muses.






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"Mnemosyne" Quotes from Famous Books



... two great Titans, Themis and Mnemosyne, belong to another group of myths. The father of Athena is the lower and nearer physical Zeus, from whom Metis, the mother of Athena, long withdraws and ...
— Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture - Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 • John Ruskin

... me whether instead of "poets discerned," it should not be "poets discern," or "have discerned," which is at all events the meaning. And now, I hope the same father of the Muses, with their mother, Mnemosyne, will accompany you into the Turanian wilderness, and give you courage to adopt the poor Malays; that in the next separate edition of this sketch, as Mithridates, we may already have the links for joining on Australia and East Africa. ...
— Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. • F. Max Mueller



Words linked to "Mnemosyne" :   Titaness, Greek mythology



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