"Euterpe". Euterpe is one of the 50 Spacer worlds in Isaac Asimov's Robot Series. It features a small moon called Gemstone. In a cantata by Strozzi Barbara, the composer puts her songs around the muse. Melpomene Melpomene features in the 1997 Walt Disney Pictures film Hercules, appearing alongside the muses Calliope, Clio, Terpsichore and Thalia, who collectively serve as a Greek chorus. She was voiced by Broadway actress Cheryl Freeman, who reprised the role in the subsequent TV series. Melpomene is a character in the 2007 musical Xanadu, which is based on the 1980 film of the same name. She was played by Mary Testa in the original Broadway production. Melpomene is a main character in the French novella Anathemae by Emilio Bouzamondo. She is the origin of the tragedy of the main characters. She appears with a billy goat at her side. Melpomene is a song by The Dear Hunter from the 2016 album Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional. Polyhymnia Polyhymnia is one of the main characters in the 1955 Tom Puss story De Muzenis. The protagonist of Madeleine L'Engle's Polly O'Keefe novels is named after the muse Polyhymnia. Terpsichore Literature In Daniel Quinn's 1997 novel My Ishmael, the fictional planet Terpsichore is a land ravished by dancing, with dancing paralleling the rise of agriculture on Earth. Dancing (in an unspecified manner) speeds up the growth of the natives' "favorite foods". Film and television The muse Terpsichore is the protagonist in the 1947 film Down to Earth. She is portrayed by Rita Hayworth. "Terpsichorean" was a popular adjective in Victorian music hall hyperbole. The long-running BBC TV series The Good Old Days recreated this style, with Leonard Sachs playing a compère with a notable fondness for the word, and in the Monty Python Cheese Shop sketch, John Cleese's character denies complaining about the music with the line "Heaven forbid. I am one who delights in all manifestations of the Terpsichorean muse." In the 1980 film Xanadu, Olivia Newton-John plays Kira, another version of Terpsichore, the muse of dancing and chorus, who inspires an artist Michael Beck and his bandleader friend Gene Kelly to open a nightclub. Terpsichore is mentioned in master poet Tony Harrison's 1992 Film-Poem The Gaze of the Gorgon: 'Terpsichore, the Muse who sees, her dances done by amputees' Terpsichore features in the 1997 Walt Disney Pictures film Hercules, appearing alongside the muses Calliope,