The Muses were a group of very intelligent and beautiful divinities exclusively created to praise the gods and especially the Olympian Gods' victory over their ancestors, the Titans.

The Muses were born in the district of Pieria of Macedonia, at the foot of Mount Olympus, which later on also became the most significant sanctuary of the Muses. Home of the Muses was Mount Helicon in Central Greece, a mountain that was sacred to the Greek god Apollo, the Greek god of the music, the light and the sun.

The Muses were brought to life to make the world disremember the evil and relieve the sorrows. They were created by of Zeus, the King of the Gods, who secretly lied 9 nights with Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory and daughter of Uranus and Gaea. The nurse of the Muses was called Eupheme.

Apollo was the main teacher of the Muses. The Muses were usually accompanying him and the Graces on their strolls and loved singing and dancing on soft feet on laurel leaves, while Apollo was playing the lyre.

It was the Muses who taught the Greek writer Hesiod the origins and genealogies of the ancient Greek gods and then blessed and inspired him to write his famous epic poem, the Theogony.