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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mnemosyne \Mne*mos"y*ne\, n. [L., fr. Gr. mnhmosy`nh remembrance, memory, and the goddess of memory. See Mnemonic.] (Class Myth.) The goddess of memory and the mother of the Muses.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
titaness, mother of the Muses, from Greek mnemosyne, literally "memory, remembrance," from mneme "memory" (see mnemonic).
Wikipedia
Mnemosyne ( or ; , ), source of the word mnemonic, was the personification of memory in Greek mythology. A Titanide, or Titaness, she was the daughter of Uranus and Gaia, and the mother of the nine Muses by her nephew Zeus:
- Calliope (epic poetry)
- Clio (history)
- Euterpe (music)
- Erato (lyric poetry)
- Melpomene (tragedy)
- Polyhymnia (hymns)
- Terpsichore (dance)
- Thalia (comedy)
- Urania (astronomy)
In Hesiod's Theogony, kings and poets receive their powers of authoritative speech from their possession of Mnemosyne and their special relationship with the Muses.
Zeus and Mnemosyne slept together for nine consecutive nights, thus birthing the nine Muses. Mnemosyne also presided over a pool in Hades, counterpart to the river Lethe, according to a series of 4th century BC Greek funerary inscriptions in dactylic hexameter. Dead souls drank from Lethe so they would not remember their past lives when reincarnated. Initiates were encouraged to drink from the river Mnemosyne when they died, instead of Lethe. These inscriptions may have been connected with Orphic poetry (see Zuntz, 1971).
Similarly, those who wished to consult the oracle of Trophonius in Boeotia were made to drink alternately from two springs called "Lethe" and "Mnemosyne." An analogous setup is described in the Myth of Er at the end of Plato's Republic.
is a six-episode Japanese anime television series produced by Xebec and Genco, featuring grotesque and erotic visuals. The anime was produced to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the AT-X network, which it originally aired on. Funimation Entertainment licensed the series in North America. The plot, rich in the mix of murder and action, is set in modern and near-future Tokyo, and revolves around Rin Asougi, an immortal female private investigator. A light novel and a manga adaptation have also been published.
Mnemosyne (named for the Greek goddess of memory, Mnemosyne) is a line of spaced repetition software developed from 2003 until the present.
Mnemosyne may refer to:
- Mnemosyne, the personification of memory in Greek mythology
- 57 Mnemosyne, a main belt asteroid
- Mnemosyne (album), by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek featuring the Hilliard Ensemble
- Mnemosyne (anime), a Japanese animation series
- Mnemosyne (book), by Mario Praz, published in 1975
- Mnemosyne (journal), a journal of classical studies published since 1852, issued by Brill Publishers
- Mnemosyne (Rossetti), an 1881 painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Mnemosyne (software), a computer assisted learning tool
- Parnassius mnemosyne, the binomial name for the clouded apollo butterfly
- "Mnemosyne", a piece for solo bass flute and pre-recorded tape by Brian Ferneyhough
- "Mnemosyne", a poem by Friedrich Hölderlin
- Sailor Mnemosyne, a character from the fifth manga arc of Sailor Moon
Mnemosyne is an academic journal of Classical Studies published by Brill Publishers. It was established in 1852 as a journal of textual criticism. It publishes articles in English, French, German, and Latin. The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents, MLA International Bibliography, and elsewhere.
The editorial board includes G. J. Boter ( VU University Amsterdam), Angelos Chaniotis ( IAS Princeton), K. M. Coleman ( Harvard University), T. Reinhardt ( University of Oxford) and I. J. F. de Jong ( University of Amsterdam).
__NOTOC__ Mnemosyne, also titled Lamp of Memory and Ricordanza, is an oil painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti begun in 1875 or early 1876 and completed in 1881. Jane Morris was the model, and Frederick Richards Leyland bought the painting in 1881 and displayed it in his drawing room with five other Rossetti "stunners." At about the same time Rossetti was painting Astarte Syriaca, a larger painting completed in 1877, with Morris in a very similar pose. Manchester Art Gallery
Usage examples of "mnemosyne".
In Satyres shape Antiopa he snatcht:And like a fire, when he Aegin' assayd:A shepheard, when Mnemosyne he catcht:And like a Serpent to the Thracian mayd.
The Mnemosyne, or Syne as commonly called, was a lock decrypter, shaped like an elongated circle divided down the center by a thread-thin slit.
Shift the Hyperion group into the empty base in Mnemosyne, for instance, if that base is still usable.
The name Helicon had been borrowed from a myth of the Ancients: it was the mountain home of the muses, who were the nine daughters of the gods Zeus and Mnemosyne, and were themselves the goddesses of memory and art and science.
The Muses are generally said to be the daughters of Zeus and the Titaness Mnemosyne (Memory), a genesis that is more allegory than myth.
For many years she had been a frequent guest of the Muses, who dwelt there with the Titaness Mnemosyne.
The thing clinging to the vertical surface of the central Mnemosyne cable was not a buzz bomb, just as an alligator is not an iguana.