Calliope

deity sky Greek single tradition · 6

Calliope is a Muse who, according to another version of the myth, suggested that both Aphrodite and Persephone should keep Adonis for half the year each.

↻ synthesized from 6 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
Mentioned in late antiquity Neoplatonic sources as the divine source of Orphic wisdom.

Relationships

parent of
Orpheus
child of
Zeus, Mnemosyne

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Sources

Source passages

“Another version states that both goddesses got to keep him for half the year each at the suggestion of the Muse Calliope.”

#22821 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Aglaophamus, the initiator, revealed to him the wisdom about the gods that Orpheus acquired from his mother Calliope”

#36697 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Calliope is one of the Sister Muses. She is the muse of epic poetry. In Calliope the Muse, Calliope and the rest of her sisters decide to make a museum for all of the godboys and the goddessgirls in Mount Olympics Academy.”

#43291 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Calliope (epic poetry)”

#45594 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-20b:free

“Debi Derryberry voiced Calliope and continued this role in a later installment”

#46096 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free