Calliope At times, she is depicted as carrying a roll of paper or a book or as wearing a gold crown. She was the muse of epic poetry, daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne , and is now best known as Homer’s muse, the inspiration for the Odyssey and the Iliad “For my mother Thetis the goddess of silver feet tells me I carry two sorts of destiny toward the day of my death. Either, if I stay here and fight beside the city of the Trojans, my return home is gone, but my glory shall be everlasting; but if I return home to the beloved land of my fathers, the excellence of my glory is gone, but there will be a long life left for me, and my end in death will not come to me quickly”