Mnemosyne hardly worshiped in Ancient Greece, and were thought of as so archaic as to belong to the ancient past. They resembled historical figures more than anything else. Mnemosyne, on the other hand, traditionally appeared in the first few lines of many oral epic poems—she appears in both the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey", among others—as the speaker called upon her aid in accurately remembering and performing the poem he was about to recite. Mnemosyne is thought to have been given the distinction of “Titan” because memory was so important and basic to the oral culture of the Greeks that they deemed
Pleione (mythology) Pleione (mythology) Pleione (Ancient Greek: Πληιόνη or Πλειόνη) was an Oceanid nymph in Greek mythology. Pleione lived in a southern region of Greece called Arcadia, on a mountain named Mount Kyllini. She married the Titan Atlas and gave birth to the Hyades, Hyas and the Pleiades. She was also the protectress of sailing. In different stories, Pleione had a different number of children (sometimes 3, 4, 5 or 7). Among her grandchildren were the god Hermes and the demigod Iasion. In some accounts, when Pleione once was travelling through Boeotia with her daughters, Orion who was accompanying her, fell in