[1] Some accounts list her as the mother of the musician Linus[2] by Apollo[3] or Hermes[4] or Amphimarus,[5] son of Poseidon.

Sometimes identified as the eldest of the divine sisters, Urania inherited Zeus' majesty and power and the beauty and grace of her mother Mnemosyne.

She is usually represented with a celestial globe to which she points with a little staff,[7] and depicted in modern art with stars above her head.

[9]Urania, o'er her star-bespangled lyre,With touch of majesty diffused her soul;A thousand tones, that in the breast inspire,Exalted feelings, o er the wires'gan roll—How at the call of Jove the mist unfurled,And o'er the swelling vault—the glowing sky,The new-born stars hung out their lamps on high,And rolled their mighty orbs to music's sweetest sound.—From An Ode To Music by James G. PercivalDuring the Renaissance, Urania began to be considered the Muse for Christian poets.

[10] In the invocation to Book 7 of John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, the poet invokes Urania to aid his narration of the creation of the cosmos, though he cautions that it is "[t]he meaning, not the name I call" (7.5) This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed.