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I'm Amanda.

And I'm Julia.

And Amanda, we've talked a lot about Greek mythology here on the show.

But I realized that there was a group of goddesses that we've only really tangentially

mentioned, but never have really done a deep dive into.

And you might say that I was divinely inspired for the theme of this episode. Oh, yeah? Because we are going to be

talking about the Greek muses. Hey, I love them. And this really feels like one of those

words and one of those concepts that we refer to all the time in everyday speech and may not

realize are rooted in mythology and folklore.

Exactly. Yeah. I think a lot of people maybe like understand the concept of the muse,

but don't understand exactly like who they were, how many of them there were, what their names

might have been. So we're going to be doing a little deep dive into them. Now, because these were

as a whole, like, very important goddesses, they are also, like, considered by Greek standards,

at least, to be minor goddesses. So there's not a ton of information on them as individuals.

But I do think that there is a lot of, like, really interesting background on who they are and kind and kind of like how they intersect and how they change depending on who is telling the stories about them.

I'm into it. I'm excited to learn.

Yes. Now, these are nine usually goddesses who basically they act as inspiration for various arts and sciences that they are associated with.

So as is usually the case,

who those goddesses are and what they were associated with definitely depends on the time

period that we're talking about. And also like the region of Greece that we're referring to,

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