Calliope is a genus of passerine birds in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.

A large molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010 found that Luscinia as defined in 2003 by Edward C. Dickinson was not monophyletic.

[4][5] Although the blackthroat (Calliope obscura) had not been included in the 2010 phylogenetic analysis, a subsequent study found that the firethroat and the blackthroat were sister species and not colour morphs of the same species as some publications had previously suggested.

[6] The genus Calliope was introduced by the English ornithologist John Gould in 1836.

[7][8] Calliope, from classical Greek meaning beautiful-voiced, was one of the muses in Greek mythology and presided over eloquence and heroic poetry.