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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
Mnemosyne 

in ancient Greek mythology, a goddess from the generation of the Titans, the mother of the Muses by Zeus. She was the personification of memory. In an allegorical sense, Mnemosyne means 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.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
It is but the poisonous weeds, not the flowers, that we should root out from the garden of Mnemosyne.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
 
 
 
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