[1] She was one of the 4 (alternatively) identified Boeotian muses recognized in Delphi,[2] also known as the Mouse Titanides.
This was largely adapted into the ancient Roman religion as well.
According to Cicero's De Natura Deorum ("On the Nature of the Gods"), "As to the Muses, there were at first four—Thelxiope, Aœde, Arche, and Melete—daughters of the second Jupiter."
Cicero identifies the main nine muses as "daughters of the third Jupiter and Mnemosyne.
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