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Mnemosyne

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Mnemosyne (nēmŏs`ĭnē, nēmŏz`–), in Greek mythology, the personification of memory. She was a Titan, daughter of Uranus and Gaea. The Muses were her daughters by Zeus.
Mnemosyne
goddess of memory; mother of Muses. [Gk. Myth.: Espy, 20]
See : Memory


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53-74) Them in Pieria did Mnemosyne (Memory), who reigns over the hills of Eleuther, bear of union with the father, the son of Cronos, a forgetting of ills and a rest from sorrow.
It is but the poisonous weeds, not the flowers, that we should root out from the garden of Mnemosyne.
 
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