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The Graces

Graces

also: Χάριτες, Charites, χάριτος (Cox print, fr. 81)

The goddesses of grace, charm, and the pleasure of made things, daughters of Zeus — summoned 'rosy-armed' in fr. 53 and, in fr. 81, the arbiters who favor the garlanded and turn from the bare-headed. With the Muses, the standing patronesses of Sappho's art.

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Mentioned in 2 works (3 mentions)

Fragments of Books Three and Four poem · 2 mentions
Fragments of Uncertain Book, with the Epigrams and Dubia poem · 1 mention

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