(μνημοσύνη, memory), according to fabulous history, one of the Titanides, and the daughter of Uranus, who married Zeus, and became the mother of the Muses. (Hesiod, Theog., 54; 915; and Cicero, De Natura A statue was erected to her honour at Athens; and, according to Pausanias, she had a sacred well and throne near the Trepheon oracle. The origin of this fable of the maternity of the Muses had doubtless a relation to the important part which the faculty of memory performs in the development of art and in the growth of science.