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Everything about Erato

Muse of erotic and lyric poetry in Greek mythology

In Greek mythology, Erato is one of the Muses, associated with erotic lyric poetry. The name would mean "desired" or "lovely", if derived from the same root as Eros, as Apollonius of Rhodes playfully suggested in the invocation to Erato that begins Book III of his Argonautica. Wikipedia →

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  1. Read the overview: EratoA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Full-Likelihood Genomic Analysis Clarifies a Complex History of Species Divergence and Introgression: The Example of the erato-sara Group of Heliconius ButterfliesInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: EratoThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Rapid morphological radiation and convergence among races of the butterfly Heliconius erato inferred from patterns of mitochondrial DNA evolution.Cited 1,223 times
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