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ERATO

Erato was the Muse of lyric poetry in some sources for Greek mythology.

Birth of Erato :

"All this was sung by the Olympian Muses, great Zeus's nine daughters whose names are Clio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polyhymnia, Urania, and Calliope, preeminent by far, the singers' pride in the company of august kings."

- Hesiod, Theogony, 75 ff.

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