Urania (mythology)

thumb|right|200px|Urania in a painting by Francesco Cozza Urania, a legendary character from Greek mythology, daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne, and a muse of astrology, and astronomy, and geometry. Quotes about Urania: Come down from heaven, Urania, if that's really what | the name by which you are called, so | That following your divine voice | May I rise above Mount Olympus | even surpassing the wing of Pegasus in flight. (John Milton) Urania to his beloved | Pindar sang them. Why so much | The Goddess deigned the high poet and how, | I'll say first; then the celestial accents | I will remember, if she inspires me as a friend. (Alessandro Manzoni) Note: Bibliography: Hesiod, Theogony 78; Ovid, Fasti 5.55 Suidas s.v. Linos Smith, s.v. Urania (1); Hyginus, Fabulae 161 Suda, lambda, 568 Pausanias, 9.29.6 Catullus lxi. 2. Hirt, Mythol. Bilderb. p. 210. Statius, Thebaid 8.548 ff. Diodorus, 4.7.1 Wood, Janet (January 31, C.E.2007). Nuclear Power. ISBN 9780863416682. "Uranus, Neptune and Pluto" Sources: Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Volume III: Books 4.59-8, translated by C. H. Oldfather, Loeb Classical Library No. 340, in Cambridge, in Massachusetts, at Harvard University Press, C.E.1939. ISBN 978-0-674-99375-4. Online version at Harvard University Press. Online version by Bill Thayer. Hesiod, Theogony, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, in Massachusetts, at Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., C.E.1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Internet Archive. Hyginus, Gaius Julius, Fabulae, in The Myths of Hyginus, edited and translated by Mary A. Grant, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, C.E.1960. Online version at ToposText. Ovid, Ovid's Fasti: With an English translation by Sir James George Frazer, London, William Heinemann Ltd.; Cambridge, in Massachusetts, at Harvard University Press, C.E.1959. Internet Archive. Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (C.E.1873). Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (C.E.1870). "Urania 1.". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Related entries Inspiration Muses Other projects: category:Urania Q104002 Urania Category:Greek gods