Editing Melpomene (section)

== Myth ==
Melpomene is one of the nine [[Muses]], the Muse of tragedy.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Atsma |first=Aaron J. |title=Melpomene |url=https://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/MousaMelpomene.html |access-date=2023-09-20 |website=[[Theoi Project]]}}</ref><ref name=":02">{{Cite journal |last=McPherson |first=Heather |date=2000 |title=Picturing Tragedy: Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse Revisited |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30053950 |journal=Eighteenth-Century Studies |volume=33 |issue=3 |pages=401–430 |doi=10.1353/ecs.2000.0029 |jstor=30053950 |issn=0013-2586}}</ref> [[Hesiod]], [[Pseudo-Apollodorus|Apollodorus]], and [[Diodorus Siculus]] all held that Melpomene was the daughter of [[Zeus]] and [[Mnemosyne]]. She was the sister of the other Muses, [[Calliope]], [[Clio]], [[Erato]], [[Euterpe]], [[Polyhymnia]], [[Terpsichore]], [[Thalia (Muse)|Thalia]], and [[Urania]].<ref name=":1" /> Apollodorus, [[Lycophron]], and [[Gaius Julius Hyginus]] said that Melpomene was the mother of the [[Siren (mythology)|sirens]],<ref name=":1" /> though some ancient writers identified this role with other figures.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Atsma |first=Aaron J. |title=Sirens (Seirenes) |url=https://www.theoi.com/Pontios/Seirenes.html |access-date=2023-09-20 |website=[[Theoi Project]]}}</ref>

Melpomene is described as singing songs of mourning for people of note after they die, particularly for poets.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Coulter |first1=Charles Russell |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sEIngqiKOugC |title=Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities |last2=Turner |first2=Patricia |publisher=Routledge |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-135-96390-3 |pages=317}}</ref>