The Small Backs of Children

Disambiguation

Muse: /myooz/noun: Origin /Greek

• In Greek and Roman mythology, each of nine goddesses, the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne (the goddess of memory), who preside over the arts and sciences. The Muses were both the embodiments and sponsors of performed metrical speech: mousike (hence the English term “Music”) was just “one of the arts of the Muses.” Others included Science, Geography, Mathematics, Philosophy, and especially Art, Drama. Inspiration, stimulus.

• A woman, or powerful force personified as a woman, who is the source of inspiration and agency for a creative artist. An imagined feminine.