Clio, sometimes referred to as "the Proclaimer", is often represented with an open parchment scroll, a book, or a set of tablets.[10] She is also shown with the heroic trumpet and theclepsydra (water clock).[11]Cesare Ripa'sIconologia, an important source book for artists of theBaroque period, stated that Clio should be depicted with a crown of laurels, a trumpet and an open book.[12]
She had one son,Hyacinth, with one of several kings, in various myths—withPierus or with kingOebalus ofSparta, or with kingAmyclas,[13][14] progenitor of the people of Amyclae, dwellers about Sparta. In a scholium toEuripides'Rhesus, she is also the mother ofHymenaeus andRhesus.[15] According to Apollodorus, Clio was made to fall in love with Pierus byAphrodite, for Clio had derided her for her love affair withAdonis.[16] Other accounts credit her as the mother ofLinus byMagnes, a poet who was buried atArgos, although Linus has a number of differing parents depending upon the account, including several accounts in which he is the son of Clio's sistersUrania orCalliope.[17]
In her capacity as "the proclaimer, glorifier and celebrator of history, great deeds and accomplishments"[18] Clio is used in the name of various modern brands, including theClio Awards for excellence in advertising.
^Harvey, Paul (1984). "Clio/Kleio".The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (Revised 1984 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 110.ISBN0-19-281490-7.
^D. S. Levene, Damien P. Nelis (2002).Clio and the Poets: Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography. Brill Academic Publishers.ISBN90-04-11782-2.
^Lewis and Short,A Latin Dictionary: Founded on Andrews' Edition of Freund's Latin Dictionary: Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten by Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL.D. The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1879,s.v.
