I decided I need a muse for the upcoming Season-of-Stress. It didn’t take more than a moment to conclude that my knowledge of the greeks got left behind back in elementary school, when mythology was one of my fun reads. Guess The Nine never made it into those stories. So in order to rectify my state of ignorance, I hit the ‘net. Those nice wiki folks gave me the following:
- Calliope (the “beautiful of speech”, chief of the muses and muse of epic or heroic poetry)
- Clio (the “glorious one”, muse of history)
- Erato (the “amorous one”, muse of love or erotic poetry, lyrics, and marriage songs)
- Euterpe (the “well-pleasing”, muse of music and lyric poetry)
- Melpomene (the “chanting one”, muse of tragedy)
- Polyhymnia or Polymnia (the “[singer] of many hymns“, muse of sacred song, oratory, lyric, singing and rhetoric)
- Terpsichore (the “[one who] delights in dance”, muse of choral song and dance)
- Thalia (the “blossoming one”, muse of comedy and bucolic poetry)
- Urania (the “celestial one”, muse of astronomy)
I looked them up, and looked at some fine artistic renderings, and considered who might be tolerant of my shortcomings and who I might be able to keep up with [I'm 60, 5'3" and weigh 235--not a Terpsichorian].
Finally settled on Thalia, who seems a kind sort.
Still, that didn’t keep me from wandering onto the nine muses personality quiz. It’s written for teenage girls, but, hey…the base does not change. So, boldly I went into that good quiz, and the Muse who came up was:
Caliope, muse of epic poetry. 
Wonder how she feels about urban fantasy.
