Η Μούσα Kαλλιόπηthe Muse Calliope Poem by Mary Skarpathiotaki

According to Hesiod, Calliope was the greatest and noble of the 9 Muses. Protector of Epic Poetry and Rhetoric, as well as all the fine arts (Kalejepousa) .

Muse Kalliopi was particularly pleading with the rhapsods to help them with inspiration. With its invocation, the Homeric epics begin.

It was the greatest, the most respected, the most serious, the wisest and the most determined of the Muses.Although a virgin to some Calliope is reported to be the mother of Jalimos, of Apollo, or of Orpheus or Linus, of Yemenus and of Komateon. Many were also those who considered Homer as her son.

They painted Kalliopi new, beautiful, majestic and imposing, with flowers on the head or ivy, on the right hand holding laurels and on the left two books, sometimes the Iliad and the Odyssey.

photo The muse Calliope by J.FAGNANI