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{{short description|Muse of history in Ancient Greek mythology}}{{other uses|Clio (disambiguation)}}

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File:Afbeelding van Clio.jpg|thumb|349x349px|Print of Clio, made in the 16th–17th century. Preserved at the (Ghent University Library]].WEB, Clio,weblink 2020-09-28, lib.ugent.be, )In Greek mythology, Clio ({{small|traditionally}} {{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|l|aɪ|oʊ}},BOOK,weblink 304, New Century Classical Handbook, Catherine B., Avery, Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York, 1962, {{small|but now more frequently}} {{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|l|iː|oʊ}}; ), also spelled Kleio,ENCYCLOPEDIA, Harvey, Paul, Clio/Kleio, The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1984, Revised 1984, 0-19-281490-7, 110, is the muse of history, or in a few mythological accounts, the muse of lyre-playing.BOOK, Morford, Mark P. O., Lenardon, Robert J., Classical Mythology,weblink registration, David McKay Company, New York, 1971, 0-679-30028-7, 56–57,

Etymology

Clio's name is etymologically derived from the Greek root κλέω/κλείω (meaning "to recount", "to make famous" or "to celebrate").BOOK, D. S. Levene, Damien P. Nelis, Clio and the Poets: Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography, Brill Academic Publishers, 2002, 90-04-11782-2, {{LSJ|*kleiw/|Κλειώ|ref}}{{LSJ|kle/w1|κλειώ|ref}} The name's traditional Latinisation is Clio,Lewis and Short, A Latin Dictionary: Founded on Andrews' Edition of Freund's Latin Dictionary: Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten by Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL.D. The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1879, s.v. but some modern systems such as the American Library Association-Library of Congress system use K to represent the original Greek kappa, and ei to represent the diphthong ει (epsilon iota), thus Kleio.

Depiction

Clio, sometimes referred to as "the Proclaimer", is often represented with an open parchment scroll, a book, or a set of tablets.WEB, Car of History Clock {{!, Architect of the Capitol |url=https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/art/car-history-clock |access-date=2023-09-05 |website=aoc.gov}} She is also shown with the heroic trumpet and the clepsydra (water clock).WEB, Clio, Greek Muse,weblink Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 6 May 2023, Cesare Ripa's Iconologia, an important source book for artists of the Baroque period, stated that Clio should be depicted with a crown of laurels, a trumpet and an open book.BOOK, Ripa, Cesare,weblink Iconologia, 1611, it,

Mythology

Like all the muses, Clio is a daughter of Zeus and the Titaness Mnemosyne, goddess of memory. Along with her sister Muses, she is considered to dwell at either Mount Helicon or Mount Parnassos.ENCYCLOPEDIA, Leeming, David, Muses, The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, Oxford University Press, 2005, 978-0-19-515669-0, 274,weblink Other common locations for the Muses are Pieria in Thessaly, near to Mount Olympus.She had one son, Hyacinth, with one of several kings, in various myths{{mdash}}with Pierus or with king Oebalus of Sparta, or with king Amyclas,Apollodorus, 3.10.3Pausanias, 3.1.3 & 3.19.4 progenitor of the people of Amyclae, dwellers about Sparta. In a scholium to Euripides' Rhesus, she is also the mother of Hymenaeus and Rhesus.Brill's New Pauly, s.v. Cleio; Scholia on Euripides' Rhesus, 346. According to Apollodorus, Clio was made to fall in love with Pierus by Aphrodite, for Clio had derided her for her love affair with Adonis.Apollodorus, 1.3.3 Other accounts credit her as the mother of Linus by Magnes, a poet who was buried at Argos, although Linus has a number of differing parents depending upon the account, including several accounts in which he is the son of Clio's sisters Urania or Calliope.BOOK, Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths, 2, Penguin, London, 1960, 1960 revised, 212–213,

Legacy

In her capacity as "the proclaimer, glorifier and celebrator of history, great deeds and accomplishments,"Carder, Sheri: "Clio Awards" The Guide to United States popular culture, pages 180–181, {{ISBN|978-0-87972-821-2}} Clio is used in the name of various modern brands, including the Clio Awards for excellence in advertising. The Cambridge University History Society is informally referred to as Clio; the Cleo of Alpha Chi society at Trinity College, Connecticut, is named after the muse. Likewise, the undergraduate student outreach group for the Penn Museum at the University of Pennsylvania is known as the Clio Society, and the first sorority founded at SUNY Geneseo, Phi Kappa Pi, began as the Alpha Clionian literary society. "Clio" also represents history in some coined words in academic usage: cliometrics, cliodynamics.Clio Bay in Antarctica is named after the muse.

Gallery

File:Statue of Clio in Berlin.jpg|Statue of Clio by Albert Wolff in BerlinFile:Moreelse Clio - muse of history.jpg|Clio, Muse of History by Johannes MoreelseFile:Gentileschi, Artemisia - Clio - 1632.jpg|Clio, the Muse of History (1632) by Artemisia Gentileschi.File:Pierre Mignard - Clio - WGA15654.jpg|The Muse Clio (c. 1689) by Pierre MignardFile:Christian Bernhard Rode - Die Muse Klio.jpg|The Muse Clio by Bernhard RodeFile:Charles Meynier - Clio, Muse of History - 2003.6.5 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tiff|Clio, Muse of History (1800) by Charles MeynierFile:Car of history.jpg|Car of History, a chariot clock depicting Clio, by Carlo Franzoni, 1819, in National Statuary HallFile:HC Lea grave LH Philly.jpg|Sculpture of Clio by Alexander Stirling Calder on the tomb of historian Henry Charles Lea

See also

• Muses in popular culture

Notes

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References

• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. {{ISBN|0-674-99135-4}}. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Brill’s New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Antiquity, Volume 3, Cat-Cyp, editors: Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider, Brill, 2003. {{ISBN|978-90-04-12266-6}}. Online version at Brill.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. {{ISBN|0-674-99328-4}}. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

Further reading

• Bartelink, Dr. G. J. M. (1988). Prisma van de mythologie. Utrecht: Het Spectrum.
• van Aken, Dr. A. R. A. (1961). Elseviers Mythologische Encyclopedie. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

External links

{{Commons category|Clio}}

• Warburg Institute Iconographic Database
• KLEIO from The Theoi Project

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