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{{Short description|Muse of epic poetry}} {{about|the muse|the steam instrument|Calliope (music)|other uses}} {{Infobox deity |type = Greek |name = Calliope |image = Calliope.jpg |caption = Detail of painting ''The Muses Urania and Calliope'' by [[Simon Vouet]], in which she holds a copy of the ''[[Odyssey]]'' |god_of = Goddess of Epic Poetry |symbols = Lyre |member_of = the [[Muses]] |abode = [[Mount Olympus]] |parents = [[Zeus]] and [[Mnemosyne]] |siblings = [[Euterpe]], [[Polyhymnia]], [[Urania]], [[Clio]], [[Erato]], [[Thalia (Muse)|Thalia]], [[Terpsichore]], [[Melpomene]] and [[Zeus#Offspring|several paternal half-siblings]] |consort = [[Apollo]], [[Oeagrus]], [[Zeus]] |children = [[Orpheus]], [[Linus of Thrace|Linus]], the [[Corybantes]] }} In [[Greek mythology]], '''Calliope''' ({{IPAc-en|k|ə|ˈ|l|aɪ|.|ə|p|i}} {{respell|kə|LY|ə|pee}}; {{langx|grc|Καλλιόπη|Kalliópē|beautiful-voiced}}) is the [[Muse]] who presides over [[eloquence]] and [[epic poetry]]; so called from the [[ecstatic]] [[harmony]] of her voice. [[Hesiod]] and [[Ovid]] called her the "Chief of all Muses".<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' 79–80: This belief in the goddess's identity, however, really cannot be proved from the text of the ''Iliad'', because there is no evidence as to the referent of θεά (goddess). Neither Kirk nor Leaf makes such a claim in their commentaries on the ''Iliad''. They simply say that she is "the Muse" (Μοῦσα). Kirk does say that it was conventional for Muses to invoked at the beginning of oral poems, since the process of the oral tradition was for the Muse to "sing" through the singer. See G. S. Kirk, ed., ''Books 1–4'', vol. I in ''The Iliad: A Commentary'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), p. 51; and Walter Leaf, ed., ''Books I–XII'', vol. I of ''The Iliad''. 2nd ed. (London: Macmillan, 1900), p. 3.</ref> [[File:Fresco of the muse Calliope, from the Villa Moregine.jpg|thumb|[[Fresco]] of Calliope, muse of epic poetry, from the Villa Moregine, western triclinium A]]
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