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The Nine Muses are the rulers of arts and inspired the creative process. They each have individual names and each have their own rule over the arts, literature, or science. Their names being, Urania, Polyhymnia, Melpomene, Thaila, Cilo, Calliope, Euterpe, Terpsichore, and lastly Erato.

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In this myth, Marsyas a half-animal and half-human challenged the God Apollo, the god of music to a music contest. On their first round the Muses were brought to judge one of their rounds, they both did great. So the Muses choose Marsyas as the victor of the first round. Then on their second round Apollo turned his lyre upside down and played the same tune, but Marsyas couldn't do the same with his flute. The puishment of losing was the winner could do anything to the loser, so he hung him from a pine tree and flayed him alive.

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The Nine Muses were born from Zeus and Mnemosyne. From the Nine of them Calliope had two famous sons named Orpheus and Linus.

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An interesting fact about the Muses that over some period of time they started to become important and responsible for human inspiration.

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Erato and Terpsichore were two of the Muses that used the lyre and to the Greek gods, this symbol meant wisdom and moderation.

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Euterpe the Muse of music used a flute and it symbolized her link to music and the mastery over music.

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Here this piece of art shows Apollo the Greek god, dancing with the Muses. This is because Apollo was named the leader of the Muses and the Muses were just dancing around with him and enjoying his company.