thumb|Apollo and the Muses, by Robert Sanderson Apollo is said to have been the lover of all nine Muses, and not being able to choose one of them, he decided to remain unwed. He fathered the Corybantes by the Muse Thalia.Apollodorus, 1.3.4. By Calliope, he had Hymenaios, Ialemus, OrpheusAsclepiades, Tragoidoumena 6 (from Scholia ad Pindari Pythia 4.313a) and Linus. Alternatively, Linus was said to be the son of Apollo and either Urania or Terpsichore.
thumb|Apollo and the Muses by Robert Sanderson Apollo is said to have been the lover of all nine Muses, and not being able to choose one of them, he decided to remain unwed. He fathered the Corybantes by the Muse Thalia.Apollodorus, 1.3.4 By Calliope he had Hymenaios, Ialemus, OrpheusAsclepiades, Tragoidoumena 6 (from Scholia ad Pindari Pythia 4.313a) and Linus. Alternatively, Linus was said to be the son of Apollo and either Urania or Terpsichore.