Mnemosyne

[ nee-mos-uh-nee, -moz- ]

noun

1. Classical Mythology the ancient Greek goddess of memory, a daughter of Uranus and Gaia and the mother by Zeus of the Muses.

Mnemosyne

/ niːˈmɒzɪˌniː; -ˈmɒs- /

noun

1. Greek myth the goddess of memory and mother by Zeus of the Muses

Word History and Origins

Origin of Mnemosyne¹

First recorded in 1700–05; from Greek mnēmosýnē “memory, remembrance,” akin to mnâsthai “to remember,” mnḗmōn “mindful”; mnemonic ( def )

Example Sentences

They turned to the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, known collectively as the Muses.

From Salon

The other notable Titans were Ocean, the river that was supposed to encircle the earth; his wife Tethys; Hyperion, the father of the sun, the moon and the dawn; Mnemosyne, which means Memory; Themis, usually translated by Justice; and Iapetus, important because of his sons, Atlas, who bore the world on his shoulders, and Prometheus, who was the savior of mankind.

From Literature

The Muses were nine in number, the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, Memory.

From Literature

The last part of his life was devoted to the “Mnemosyne Atlas,” creating what he called a “comparative view” of objects and visual perspectives to highlight the “afterlife of antiquity,” or how ancient ideas — like astrology — persisted into the Renaissance and even the present.

From New York Times

The one exhibition I was most excited to see this year was “Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne — The Original,” which was to open in March at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt contemporary arts center in Berlin, organized by Roberto Ohrt and Axel Heil in collaboration with the Warburg Institute in London.

From New York Times