Urania
Οὐρανία
(Οὐρανία).
1. One of the Muses, a daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne. (Hes. Theog. 78; Ov. Fast. 5.55.) The ancient bard Linus is called her son by Apollo (Hygin. Fab. 161), and Hymenaeus also is said to have been a son of Urania. (Catull. 61.2.) She was regarded, as her name indicates, as the Muse of Astronomy, and was represented with a celestial globe to which she points with a little staff. (Hirt, Mythol. Bilderb. p. 210.)
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