Caught between their mother’s analytical detachment and their uncles’ melancholy temperaments, the muses grew up sensitive, artistic and given to strong emotional expression, which they doled up on the world in poetry, music and dance.
A couple of them took after their mother and followed more exact fields of interest, such as history and astronomy, while the drama queens, Thalia and Melpomene, who never showed up anywhere without their comic and tragic masks, inspired theater.
They were beautiful, willful and unencumbered, the muses, and their creativity and passions fired human thought, inspiring literary masterpieces and beautiful works of art, but most of all, music, which seemed to resonate and flow directly from their beatific voices.
Poets, playwrights, bards, philosophers and scientists revered them and worshipped at their feet, and would walk across rivers of fire hoping to receive even one drop of their divine inspiration.
