InGreek mythology,Mese (/ˈmiːsiː/;Ancient Greek: Μέση) was one of the threeMuses of thelyre together with her sistersNete andHypate. They were worshipped atDelphi, where theTemple of Apollo and theOracle were located. Mese was the Muse of the middle cord of the seven noted lyre and represented one of the three strings of the said popular Greek musical instrument.[1][2][3]
These three muses were comparable to the original three,Aoide,Melete, andMneme. Alternatively, they wereCephisso,Apollonis, andBorysthenis, which portrayed them as the daughters ofApollo.
In hisQuaestiones Convivales,Plutarch acknowledged the role ofUrania as the muse of the heavens, but also gave Mese and her sisters an astronomical role. According to the text, the universe was harmonically divided into three parts: the fixed stars, the planets, and then everything under the moon. Mese took care of the second one.[4]
