The Muses
- Looks after
- Sacred hymns
- Often shown with
- A veil or cloak, a thoughtful pose.
Polyhymnia
Πολύμνια
Polyhymnia is the Muse of sacred song and hymns, and is often shown wrapped in a cloak and silent.
Polyhymnia is one of the nine Muses. Her name means many hymns. She was the Muse of sacred poetry and hymns to the gods, and sometimes of dance or of rhetoric in Roman accounts.
In art she is thoughtful and often shown without any instrument, with her finger at her lips, wrapped in a cloak. In some accounts she is the mother of Orpheus.
The ancient evidence for Polyhymnia is limited, so this page is short on purpose.
Ancient sources
- Hesiod, Theogony 78