Erato

Erato in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Erato (Ἐρατώ) is one of the Greek Muses. The name would mean "desired" or "lovely", if derived from the same root as Eros, as Apollonius of Rhodes playfully suggested in the invocation to Erato that begins Book III of his Argonautica.[1] Erato is the Muse of lyric poetry, especially love and erotic poetry. In the Orphic hym...

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Erato in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Ἐρατώ), a nymph and the wife of Areas, by whom she became the mother of Elatus, Apheidas, and Azan. She was said to have been a prophetic priestess of the Arcadian Pan. (Paus. 8.27.9; ARCAS.) There are two other mythical personages of this name, the one a Muse and the other a Nereid. (Apollod. 1.3.1, 2.6; Hes. Th. 247.) - A Dictionary of Gree...

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