MELPOMENE • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Melpomene

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

Melpomene

noun

(Greek mythology) the Muse of tragedy.

See images of 'Melpomene'

Etymology of 'Melpomene'

Share |

"Melpomene" Quotes from Famous Books

... to a theatre again. Even as it is, the annoyance is much more than the pleasure; but I suppose I must go to see her in every character in which she acts. If Charlotte cares for plays, let me know, and I will write in more detail about this new Melpomene. I fear there are very few subjects on which I can say anything that will in ...

— The Life of John Sterling • Thomas Carlyle

... that in France the comic Muse should be the gravest lady in the nation. Of late she is so grave, that one might almost mistake her for her sister Melpomene. Moliere made her indeed a good moral philosopher; but then she philosophised, like Democritus, with a merry, laughing face. Now she weeps over vice instead of showing it to mankind, as I think she generally ought to ...

— Dialogues of the Dead • Lord Lyttelton

... makes it tend to friendship, mutual confidence, and endearment, and not to effeminacy, lust, or discontent. The delight which the eye or ear receives is a sort of pleasure, either appropriate to reason or to passion, or common to them both. This the two other Muses, Terpsichore and Melpomene, so moderate, that the one may only tickle and not charm, the other only please and ...

— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch

Words linked to "Melpomene" : Greek mythology, muse