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Terpsichora

Τερψιχόρα

(Τερψιχόρα), one of the nine Muses, presided over choral song and dancing. (Hes. Theog. 78; Pind. Isthm. 2.7; Plat. Phaedr. p. 259 ; comp. MUSAE.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.