Clash of the Titans

    1)   Who are the Titans?

The titans is a god of Zeus, Poseidon and Hades. 

2) Are the any interesting motifs you see frequently appearing (Eg. Lightning bolts)? How do you interpret their meaning? Can you name a modern version, of this motif, used today? 

     I see the sea, war, poor, war , dead motifs etc. I think motifs the scorpion and Gorgon Medusa were interesting. Because the scorpion is a toxic biological and cut off Perseus way. They look like be killer. Gorgon Medusa is a key person. When the stygian witches and are told that the solution lies with the head of the Gorgon Medusa, they can go to fight in the Underworld. But the end they can’t fight in the Underworld. 

3     Is your Greek character in the movie? If so, does the film's interpretation match your research? 

    I think this isn’t my Greek character Because they don’t talking much about muses. I think the muses is about when Titans were finally defeated by their sons Zeus), Poseidon, and Hades. Muses were  Celebrate their win.  

4)Are any of the characters, in the movie, related (Eg. a mother or father, wife or husband, brother or sister) to your Greek myth? If so, how? 

Zeus were Muses ’s father. He and Mnemosyne were the Muses.  

5) Is their a constellation of stars named after your Greek character?

I don’t think their constellation of stars named after the muses. It is because they’re early to them. They were after the titans.

6) How is Medusa killed? Does your Greek character have a weakness?

Perseus behead her head. I think the Muses is a art and music character. They aren’t fighting.

 

 

 

 

Muses

The Muses in Greek mythology, poetry, and literature are the goddesses who inspire the creation of literature and the arts.

History
The Muses in Greek mythology, poetry, and literature are the goddesses who inspire the creation of literature and the arts. There were nine Muses who played, sang, danced, and inspired others to do the same.

Adventures

In myths, the Muses often punished or rewarded mortals. Hesiod claimed that they gave him knowledge and inspired him.  In myth, the muses had 2 things to talk the people the muse’s adventures.

One of the Odyssey tells of Demodocus, a man who was blinded and then given the gift of song by one of the Muses. She claimed that song was even more precious than sight. Although the Muses could be generous, they resented mortals who questioned their supremacy in the arts.

Second of myth tells of the Pierces, nine sisters who lived in Macedonia, north of Greece. The Pierces challenged the Muses to a contest. The Muses won and then turned their challengers into chattering birds

Relationships

 In the myth , the Muses was a group of nine sister. The nine muses: Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, and Urania. Each had her own domain:Poets and other artists often called on them for inspiration. Zeus, the king of the gods, was the father of the Muses. Their mother was Mnemosyne, goddess of memory. But some  client say their parents were actually Uranus (Sky) and Gaea (Mother Earth).

Appearance of the hero

The Muses were brought to life to make the world dismemberment the evil and relieve the sorrows and to praise the gods.

 Symbols associated with the creature and interpret it s evolution through history

• Calliope is chief of the nine Muses. She was the patron of epic poetry. Her symbol was a writing tablet.

• Clio is one of the nine Muses. She was the patron of history and inventor of historical and heroic poetry. Her symbol was a scroll.

•   Erato is a the Muse of lyric poetry about love and eroticism.  Her symbol was a Citrate.

• Euterpe is a the Muse of lyric poetry and music. Her symbol was a aulos.

• Polynomial is the somber and beautiful one. She was the Muse of Sacred Hymn and of Eloquence. Her symbol was a veil.

• Melpomene was the muse of Tragedy and that was it.  Her symbol was a tragic mask.

• Terpsichore was the Muse of dancing and choral singing. Her symbol was a Lyre.

• Thalia presided over comedy and pastoral poetry which explains why she holds a comic mask.  Her symbol was a Comic mask.

• Urania was a muse of astronomy and astrology (One of the nine Muses Her symbol globe and compass.

After the Titans had been defeated and Zeus had consolidated his rule and established himself as the supreme Olympian, Zeus needed to create someone to sing of his glory. The result was the Muses. Because I think this is why have the muses and sang of his greatness.

he muses were inspire poets and promote the arts and sciences.  

Link: 

http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Mi-Ni/Muses.html

http://www.greek-gods.info/ancient-greek-gods/muses/#muses-home

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muse

http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Mi-Ni/Muses.html

http://thanasis.com/muses.htm

http://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/Mousai.html

Muses research

The Muses (Ancient Greek αἱ μοῦσαι, hai moũsai ^[1]: perhaps from the o-grade of the Proto-Indo-European root *men- "think"^[2]) in Greek mythology, poetry, and literature are the goddesses who inspire the creation of literature and the arts. They were considered the source of the knowledge, related orally for centuries in the ancient culture, that was contained in poetic lyrics and myths. The compliment to a real woman who inspires creative endeavor is a later idea.

In Boeotia, the homeland of Hesiod, a tradition persisted^[3] that the Muses had once been three in number. Diodorus Siculus, quotes Hesiod to the contrary, observing:

Writers similarly disagree also concerning the number of the Muses; for some say that they are three, and others that they are nine, but the number nine has prevailed since it rests upon the authority of the most distinguished men, such as Homer and Hesiod and others like them.^[4]

Three ancient Muses were also reported in Plutarch's Quaestiones Conviviviales (9.I4.2-4).^[5] The Roman scholar Varro relates that there are only three Muses: one who is born from the movement of water, another who makes sound by striking the air, and a third, who is embodied only in the human voice. They were:

• Melete, or Practice
• Mneme, or Memory
• Aoide, or Song

The Classical understanding of the muses tripled their triad to nine goddesses who embody the arts and inspire creation through memorized and improvised singing, theater, writing, music, and dance.

In one myth, King Pierus, king of Macedon, had nine daughters he named after the nine Muses, believing that their skills were a great match to the Muses. He thus challenged the Muses to a match, resulting in his daughters, the Pierides, being turned into chattering magpies^[6] for their presumption.

Sometimes they are referred to as water nymphs, associated with the springs of Helicon and with Pieris. It was said that the winged horse Pegasus touched his hooves to the ground on Helicon, causing four sacred springs to burst forth, from which the muses were born.[1] Athena later tamed the horse and presented him to the muses.

The Olympian myths set Apollo as their leader, Apollon Mousagetēs. Not only are the Muses explicitly used in modern English to refer to an artistic inspiration, as when one cites one's own artistic muse, but they also are implicit in words and phrases such as "amuse", "museum" (Latinised from mouseion—a place where the muses were worshipped), "music", and "musing upon".^[7]

According to Hesiod's Theogony (7th century BC), they were daughters of Zeus, the second generation king of the gods, and the offspring of Mnemosyne, goddess of memory. For Alcman andMimnermus, they were even more primordial, springing from the early deities, Uranus and Gaia. Gaia is Mother Earth, an early mother goddess who was worshipped at Delphi from prehistoric times, long before the site was rededicated to Apollo, possibly indicating a transfer to association with him after that time. Pausanias records a tradition of two generations of Muses; the first being daughters of Uranus and Gaia, the second of Zeus and Mnemosyne. Another, rarer genealogy is that they are daughters of Harmonia (the daughter of Aphrodite andAres) which contradicts the myth in which they were dancing at the wedding of Harmonia and Cadmus. This later inconsistency is an example of how clues to the true dating, or chronology, of myths may be determined by the appearance of figures and concepts in Greek myths.^{[citation needed]}

Compare the Roman "inspiring nymphs of springs," the Camenae, the Völva of Norse Mythology, the apsaras in the mythology of classical India, and the three chief goddesses of pre-Islamic Arabian religion, Al-‘Uzzá, Allāt, and Manāt.

Muses in myth

According to Pausanias in the later 2nd century AD,^[8] there were three original Muses, worshiped on Mount Helicon in Boeotia: Aoidē ("song" or "voice"), Meletē ("practice" or "occasion"), and Mnēmē("memory"). Together, these three form the complete picture of the preconditions of poetic art in cult practice. In Delphi three Muses were worshiped as well, but with other names: Nētē, Mesē, and Hypatē, which are assigned as the names of the three chords of the ancient musical instrument, the lyre. Alternatively they later were called Cēphisso, Apollonis, and Borysthenis, whose names characterize them as daughters of Apollo.

In later tradition, four Muses were recognized: Thelxinoē, Aoedē, Arche, and Meletē, said to be daughters of Zeus and Plusia (or, of Uranus).

One of the persons frequently associated with the Muses was Pierus. By some he was called the father (by a Pimpleian nymph: called Antiope by Cicero) of a total of seven Muses, called Neilo (Νειλώ), Tritone (Τριτώνη), Asopo (Ἀσωπώ), Heptapora (Ἑπτάπορα), Achelois, Tipoplo (Τιποπλώ), and Rhodia.^[9]

In one myth, the Muses judged a contest between Apollo and Marsyas. They also gathered the pieces of the dead body of Orpheus, son of Calliope, and buried them. They blinded Thamyris for his hubris in challenging them to a contest.

Though the Muses, when taken together, form a complete picture of the subjects proper to poetic art, the association of specific Muses with specific art forms is a later innovation. The Muses were not assigned standardized divisions of poetry with which they are now identified until late Hellenistic times.

Muses

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