How much of your office furniture would you like to put at risk for this one: Name the seven muses and what they rule over.
Aww, skip it. Folks can’t even remember who the current president is, according to Jay Leno’s man on the street interviews. So here it is.
Thanks to Wikipedia for this list:
Calliope was chief of the muses and muse of epic or heroic poetry.
Clio was the muse of history.
Erato was the muse of love or erotic poetry, lyrics, and marriage songs.
Euterpe was the muse of music and lyric poetry.
Melpomene was the muse of tragedy.
Polyhymnia was the muse of sacred song, oratory, lyric, singing and rhetoric.
Terpsichore was the muse of dance.
Thalia was the muse of comedy and bucolic poetry.
Urania was the muse of astronomy.
