-personification of memory
-Titan goddess of memory and inventor of words
-also a goddess of time
Family
Father: Uranus
Mother: Gaea
Daughters: the Muses; Cleio, Euterpe, Thaleia, Melpomene, Terpischore, Erato, Polyhymnia, Urania, and Calliope
-Zeus slept with Mnemosyne for nine nights, and gave birth to the Muses one year later
Important Place
-Mnemosyne presided over the underground oracle of Trophonius in Boeotia
-those who wanted to consult the oracle of Trophonius in Boeotia had to drink alternately from two springs called "Lethe" and "Mnemosyne"
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