Urania
(
Οὐρανία).
1.
One of the Muses, a daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyné. The ancient bard Linus is
called her son by Apollo, and Hymenaeus also is said to have been a son of Urania. 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 small staff.
2.
Daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, who also occurs as a nymph in the train of
Persephoné.
3.
A surname of Aphrodité, describing her as “the heavenly,” or
spiritual, to distinguish her from Aphrodité Pandemos. Plato represents her as a
daughter of Uranus, begotten without a mother. Wine was not used in the libations offered to
her. See
Aphrodité.