Book 5 of Ovid's Fasti opens with a diatribe in which one of these  figures defends the notion that May is derived from the name of the  goddess Majestas.  
Book 5 of Ovid's Fasti opens with a diatribe in which one of these  figures defends the notion that May is derived from the name of the  goddess Majestas.  The riddle of man that the sphinx gave was taken from  them according to Apollodorus. Cicero wrote that some of them were  fathered by Pierus and Antiope, which is why they are sometimes called  the (*) Pierides. One person who wanted to sleep with these figures was  Thamyris, who was punished for his insolence. They were produced after  their mother slept with Zeus for a set of consecutive nights, and one of them  was the mother of Orpheus. For 10 points, name these patron of the arts.
Book 5 of Ovid's Fasti opens with a diatribe in which one of these  figures defends the notion that May is derived from the name of the  goddess Majestas.  
the Muses