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The Three Graces: Agleaea, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, by Antonio Canova


In Greek mythology, Euphrosyne (IPA pronunciation: [ju'frɒzəni]) was one of the Charites, known in English also as the "Three Graces". Her best remembered representation in English is in Milton's poem of the active, joyful life, "L'Allegro". She is also the Goddess of Joy. A daughter of Zeus and Eurynome. Incarnation of grace and beauty.

She can be seen along with the other two Graces at the left of the painting in Botticelli's Primavera.

A character in the Sally Potter film 'Orlando', the fiance of Orlando himself in the early section of the film is named Euphrosyne.

There are, moreover, at least two instances of Euphrosinia in Russian and Ukrainian literature. It is the name given to Yaroslavna, the wife of Prince Igor, who laments the walls of Putivl' in the 12th-century epic from Ancient Rus', The Lay of Igor's Raid (Слово о полку Игореве). This is a notable example of the traditional role of women to mourn and lament. Euphrosinia is, in addition, the name of a character in Lesya Ukrainka's 1913 play, Orgiya (Орґія).

In Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, "Euphrasie" is Cosette's real name.
Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the Ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.
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Personified concepts
  • Muses
  • Nemesis
  • Moirae
  • Cratos
  • Zelus
  • Nike
  • Metis
  • Charites
  • Oneiroi
  • Adrasteia
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  • Bia
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John Milton

Born: November 9 1608(1608--)
Bread Street, Cheapside, London, England
Died: November 8 1674 (aged 67)
Bunhill, London, England
Occupation: Poet, Prose Polemicist, Civil Servant
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L'Allegro (1631) is a famous pastoral poem by John Milton.

The verses banish "loathèd Melancholy," invoke Euphrosyne and other allegorical figures of joy and merriment, and extol the active and cheerful life, depicting a day in the countryside according to this philosophy.
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Sandro Botticelli

Alleged self-portrait of Botticelli, in his Adoration of the Magi. Uffizi, Florence.
Birth name Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi
March 1 1444(1444--) or 1445
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The Primavera is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, c. 1482. It is housed in Uffizi Gallery of Florence.

In 1551, Vasari wrote that picture which according to him announced the arrival of spring (Primavera
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Les Misérables

Portrait of "Cosette" by Emile Bayard, from the original edition of Les Misérables (1862)
Author Victor Hugo
Country France
Language French
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher A.
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Cosette is a fictional character in the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.

Early life

Euphrasie, nicknamed Cosette by her mother, is the illegitimate daughter of Fantine and Felix Tholomyès.
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