Terpsichore. In Greek mythology, Terpsichore is one of the nine Muses and goddess of dance and chorus.
She lends her name to the word terpsichorean which means of or relating to dance. She is usually depicted sitting down, holding a lyre, accompanying the dancers' choirs with her music.
Her name comes from the Greek words and o. She was also said to be the mother of the Sirens and Parthenope by Achelous. In some accounts, she bore the Thracian king Biston by Ares.
The British 32-gun frigate HMS Terpsichore commanded by Captain Bowen participated in the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Terpsichore is the name of a street in New Orleans' historic neighborhoods of Faubourg Lafayette and the Lower Garden District.
It runs alongside Euterpe and Melpomene streets, also named for Greek muses. Terpsichorean is the name of the Choreography Society of Hans Raj College, University of Delhi. Terpsichore figures among her sisters in Hesiod's Theogony. When The Histories of Herodotus were divided by later editors into nine books, each book was named after a Muse. Terpsichore was the name of the fifth book. The character of Wilkins Micawber, Esq, Jr. is described as a votary of Terpsichore, in an Australian newspaper brought to London by Dan Peggotty in 1850 novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. T.S. Eliot in the poem Jellicle Cats from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, refers to the terpsichore
She lends her name to the word terpsichorean which means of or relating to dance. She is usually depicted sitting down, holding a lyre, accompanying the dancers' choirs with her music.
Her name comes from the Greek words and o. She was also said to be the mother of the Sirens and Parthenope by Achelous. In some accounts, she bore the Thracian king Biston by Ares.
The British 32-gun frigate HMS Terpsichore commanded by Captain Bowen participated in the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Terpsichore is the name of a street in New Orleans' historic neighborhoods of Faubourg Lafayette and the Lower Garden District.
It runs alongside Euterpe and Melpomene streets, also named for Greek muses. Terpsichorean is the name of the Choreography Society of Hans Raj College, University of Delhi. Terpsichore figures among her sisters in Hesiod's Theogony. When The Histories of Herodotus were divided by later editors into nine books, each book was named after a Muse. Terpsichore was the name of the fifth book. The character of Wilkins Micawber, Esq, Jr. is described as a votary of Terpsichore, in an Australian newspaper brought to London by Dan Peggotty in 1850 novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. T.S. Eliot in the poem Jellicle Cats from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, refers to the terpsichore
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