Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse paintings of Melpoméne, she is represented with a tragic mask and also often holds in her other hand a knife or club. In Greek mythology, she is the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne, who had eight other daughters, Melpoméne's sisters and the eight other muses are: Calliope, muse of epic poetry; Clio, muse of history; Euterpe, muse of flute playing; Terpsichore, muse of dancing; Erato, muse of erotic poetry; Thalia muse of comedy; Polyhymnia, muse of hymns; and Urania, muse of astronomy. Reynolds was inspired not only by Sarah Siddons' extreme talent to embody the tragic heroine in Macbeth, but
Ancient Greek accent the endings and perhaps , and in verbs 3rd pl. and (derived from an earlier *"-ont" and *"-ant") counted as long, leading to a paroxytone accent in: Doric speakers also apparently pronounced a circumflex on certain genitive plurals, which were paroxytone in other dialects: In Doric the future was also accented non-recessively in all verbs: Ancient Greek accent The Ancient Greek accent is believed to have been a melodic or pitch accent. One of the final three syllables of an Ancient Greek word carried an accent. Each syllable contains a vowel with one or two vocalic morae, and one mora