Erato

Roman statue o Erato, 2nt century AD. The muse is depictit playin the kithara or lyre.

In Greek meethology, Erato /ˈɛrətoʊ/ (Auncient Greek: Ἐρατώ) is ane o the Greek Muses. The name wad mean "desired" or "lovely", if derived frae the same ruit as Eros, as Apollonius o Rhodes playfully suggestit in the invocation tae Erato that begins Beuk III o his Argonautica. Erato is the Muse o lyric poetry, especially romantic an erotic poetry.