Polyhymnia

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Polyhymnia is a very serious woman. She is often depicted holding a finger to her mouth, dressed in a long cloak and veil resting her elbow on a pillar. Polyhymnia brings fame to writers whose works have won them immortal fame. Sometimes she's known as the muse of geometry, mime, meditation, and agriculture. Who is depicted? Polyhymnia was in Greek mythology the Muse of sacred poetry, sacred hymn, dance, and eloquence. She also had a role in agriculture and pantomime. Her name comes from the words "poly" meaning many and "hymnos", which means praise. Polyhymnia is often shown as very serious, pensive, and meditative. She's usually holding a finger to her mouth, dressed in a long cloak and veil resting her elbow on a pillar. Sometimes she's credited with being the Muse of geometry and meditation. In the book Bibliotheca historica, Diodorus Siculus wrote, "Polyhymnia brings distinction to writers whose works have won for them immortal fame...". She appears in Dante's Divine Comedy: Paradiso. Canto XXIII, line 56, and is referenced in modern works of fiction. More about the artist Of Rhodes, a sculptor, several of whose works were placed in the temple of Apollo adjoining the portico of Octavia at Rome. One of these statues was that of the god himself: the others were Latona and Diana, the nine Muses, and another statue of Apollo without drapery. Within the portico, in the temple of Juno, was a statue of Venus by the same artist. Philiscus made some of the statues expressly for the temples but it's unclear whether they were made at the time of their first erection or restoration. Most writers place him at an earlier date but he definitely belonged to a period that saw a revival in art which began with the 155th Olympiad and extended down to the time of the Antonines.