Poly'mnia
(
Πολύμνια), or POLYHY'MNIA, a daughter of Zeus, and one of the nine Muses.
She presided over lyric poetry, and was believed to have invented the lyre. (
Hes. Th. 78; Schol.
ad Apollon. Rhod. 3.1.) By Oeagrus she became the mother of Orpheus. (Schol.
l.c. 1.23.)
In works of art she was usually represented in a pensive attitude. (Hirt,
Mythol. Bilderb. p. 209; comp. MUSAE.)
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