...t except one tower. The sons of Aloeus held that the Muses were three in number, and gave them the names of Melete （Practice）, Mneme （Memory） and Aoede （Song）. But they say that afterwards Pierus, a Macedonia n, after whom the mountain in Macedonia was named, came to Thespiae and established nine Muses, changing their names to the present ones. Pierus was of this opinion either because it seemed to him wis...