ας (ἡ) [ᾰν] Uranie Ourania (propr. la Céleste) :
      1 surn. d’Aphrodite, HDT. 3, 8, etc. ; XÉN. Conv. 8, 9 ; PLAT. Conv. 180, etc. ;
      2 n. d’une Muse, HÉS. Th. 78 ;
      3 n. d’une Océanide, HÉS. Th. 350 ; HH. Cer. 423.

➳ Ion. et épq. Οὐρανίη, HH. HÉS. HDT. ll. cc.

Étym. οὐράνιος.

Proper name: URA'NIA (Οὐρανία) 1. One of the Muses, a daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne. (Hes. Theog. 78 ; Ov. Fast. v. 55.) The ancient bard Linus is called her son by Apollo (Hygin. Fab. 161), and Hymenaeus also is said to have been a son of Urania. (Catull. lxi. 2.) She was regarded, as her name indicates, as the Muse of Astronomy, and was represented with a celestial globe to which she points with a little staff. (Hirt, Mythol. Bilderb. p. 210.) (Wikisource | public domain)

s. LGPN

(Boeot. Ὠρανία IG 7.1804, also at Epidaurus, ib. 4²(1).283), Ep. and Ion. -ίη, ἡ, Urania, name of one of the Muses, Hes. Th. 78; later, she was looked on esp. as the Muse of Astronomy, Cic. Div. 1.11.17, al. epith. of Aphrodite, opp. Ἀ. Πάνδημος, Pl. Smp. 181c, cf. Pi. Fr. 122.4, Hdt. 1.105; worshipped in Scythia, Id. 4.59, IPE 2.28 (Panticapaeum); in Amorgos, IG 12(7).57 (iii BC). the Arabians called the moon Ἀλιλάτ, i.e. Οὐρανίη, Hdt. 3.8.
a game in which a ball was thrown into the air, Hsch. a plant, = ἶρις, Ps.-Dsc. 1.1. Aeol. or Dor. ὠρανίαφι, said to be voc., O (Muse) of heaven, Alcm. 59.

Place, proper name

• settlement near NE Rizokarpaso in Famagusta, Cyprus, Classical to Late Antique.. (TOPOS text)