• actress Venida Evans has appeared as a "muse" in a series of IKEA television commercials which have been described as "surreal" and "creepy"?
• Polish Countess Delfina Potocka served as muse to both Romantic poet Count Zygmunt Krasiński and composer Frédéric Chopin—who both wrote works in her honor?

Facts on topics related to Muse

Greek mythology

• Apaliunas, a Luwian deity of Wilusa (Troy) attested among gods in a treaty inscription, ca. 1280 BCE, is a likely precursor of Apollo of Greek mythology?
• chryselephantine sculptures (fragments pictured) were monumental statues made of gold and ivory that depicted the gods in Ancient Greek temples?
• a major source for Greek mythology, the first Vatican Mythographer, survives in a single text in the Vatican Library?
• according to Greek mythology, Adonis was slain by a boar at the foot of the waterfall in Apheca in modern-day Lebanon?
• according to Greek mythology, the festival of Delia was instituted by Theseus after slaying the Minotaur (pictured)?
• in Greek mythology Gorgythion was one of the fifty sons of King Priam of Troy?
• in Greek mythology, Heracles chased off the man-eating birds of Lake Stymphalia by playing castanet-like clappers called "crotala"?
• in Greek mythology, Antiope was the only Amazon known to have married?
• in Greek mythology, Arion (or Areion) was an extremely swift immortal horse that could talk?
• in Greek mythology, Dorus is the name of the son of Hellen who was the eponymous founder of the Dorians?

Apollo

• Apaliunas, a Luwian deity of Wilusa (Troy) attested among gods in a treaty inscription, ca. 1280 BCE, is a likely precursor of Apollo of Greek mythology?

Hermes

• actor Paul Scofield came out of retirement in 1998 in order to play the part of Hermes in the BBC radio play Troy?
• the three caducei on the Flag of Brisbane (pictured) represent Hermes' role as the protector of commerce, and not their more familiar meaning of being associated with medicine?

Artemis

• the museum of Epidaurus has a reconstruction of part of the entablature of a Temple of Artemis, dated to 370–310 B.C.?

Centaur

• the Archaeological Museum of Eretria in Greece contains a 10th century B.C. terracotta centaur from Lefkandi which was discovered broken in two parts, each placed in a different grave?

Hephaestus

• Desiderius Erasmus nicknamed his academic opponent Jacobus Latomus (pictured) "Hephestion," a reference to Latomus's distinct limp?
• masked wrestler Ephesto is named after the Greek god Hephaestus?