Muses, 185. […] The Oceanis Eurynome next produced him the Graces ; Demeter was then by him the mother of Persephone, Mnemosyne of the Muses, and Leto of Apollo and Artemis. […] At the banquets of the gods on Olympos, Apollo played on his phorminx or lyre, while the Muses sang611. […] The only celestial amour recorded of Apollo is that with the muse Calliope, of which the fruit was Orpheus630. No parents more suitable could be assigned to the poet, whose strains could move the woods and rocks, than the god of poetry and the muse Fair-voice.