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Melpomene
is always a great word to know.
So is satyr. Does it mean:
| a member of a family of giants having a single round eye in the middle of the forehead |
| one of a class of woodland deities, attendant on Bacchus, represented as part human, part horse, and sometimes part goat and noted for lasciviousness |
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Melpomene
in Greek religion, one of the nine Muses, patron of tragedy and lyre playing. In Greek art her attributes were the tragic mask and the club of Heracles. According to some traditions, the half-bird, half-woman Sirens were born from the union of Melpomene with the river god Achelous
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