Calliŏpé
(
Καλλιόπη). One of the Muses, daughter of Zeus and
Mnemosyné. She presided over epic
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Calliopé, the Muse of Epic Poetry (Statue in the Vatican.)
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poetry and eloquence, and was represented holding a close-rolled parchment and
sometimes a trumpet. She derived her name from her beautiful voice (
ἀπὸ τῆς καλῆς ὀπός). Calliopé bore to Oeagrus a son named Linus,
who was killed by his pupil Heracles (
Apollod. i.3.2). She had
also by the same sire the celebrated Orpheus. Others, however, made Apollo the sire of Linus
and Orpheus. Hesiod (
Frag. 97) says that Urania was the mother of Linus.