In the Greek Mythology, Clio (in Greek old Κλειώ / Kleiô , of κλέω / kleô , “to celebrate, sing”), was MUSE of the Histoire.

One represents it under the figure of a crowned young girl of bay-trees, holding in his right hand a trumpet, and of his left hand a book which has as a title Thucydide. With these attributes one joint sometimes the terrestrial sphere on which it poses, and the Time which is seen close to it, in order to show that the History embraces all the places and all times. Sometimes its statues hold a guitar of a hand, and a Plectre of the other, because Clio was also regarded as the inventor of the guitar.

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• (I, 3,1; I, 3,3).

• (IV, 4).
• ( passim ).

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• Muses

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