Melpomene lyrical poetry), Terpsichore (muse of dancing), Erato (muse of erotic poetry), Thalia (muse of comedy), Polyhymnia (muse of hymns), and Urania (muse of astronomy). She is also the mother of several of the Sirens, the divine handmaidens of Kore (Persephone/Proserpina) who were cursed by her mother, Demeter/Ceres, when they were unable to prevent the kidnapping of Kore (Persephone/Proserpina) by Hades/Pluto. In Roman and Greek poetry, it was traditional to invoke the goddess Melpomene so that one might create beautiful lyrical phrases (see Horace's Odes). Melpomene Melpomene (; ), initially the Muse of Chorus, she then became the Muse of Tragedy,
The White Goddess "The Golden Fleece". He then left the book to focus on "King Jesus," a historical novel about the life of Jesus. Returning to "The Roebuck in the Thicket", he renamed it "The Three-Fold Muse", before finishing it and retitling it as "The White Goddess". In January 1946 he sent it to the publishers, and in May 1948 it was published in the UK, and in June 1948 in the US, as "The White Goddess: a Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth". Graves described "The White Goddess" as "a historical grammar of the language of poetic myth". The book draws from the