Images of Melpomene often depict her as holding a tragic mask in one hand and a sword in the other hand. All performers were male and played both male and female roles. There were up to three performers with speaking roles and up to 15 performers in the chorus who only sang. The subject matter of Greek tragedy dealt with moral right and wrongs, and the performers would wear masks to impersonate a god. It is believed that tragedy began as a performance of epic poetry that included worship rituals to the god of theatre, Dionysus. The origin of tragedy is debated by scholars. Melpomene’s role was the tragedy.Ī tragedy is a form of ancient Greek drama that was performed in open-air theatres in Athens and forms the foundation of modern theatre. These roles were history, comedy, poetry, music, dancing, singing, sacred hymns, rhetoric, and harmony. Her sisters were Clio, Thalia, Calliope, Polyhymnia, Euterpe, Erato, Terpsichore, and Urania. The nine Muses were also goddesses who lived above the summits of Mount Olympus, Helicon, Parnassus, and the Pindus. They were the daughters of Zeus, the king of the gods, and the goddess of memory, Mnemosyne. In Greek mythology, the Nine Muses provided inspiration for literature, art, music, and science.
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