ClioMuse of history
A memory more lasting than bronze — in aluminum, in a wallet.
Clio beneath the star-strewn sky, the scroll of History in her arm and one hand on the globe — beside her, the fathers of history: Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy, Tacitus, Plutarch, Polybius.
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The Latin
Memoria rerum. Veritas temporis. Facta loquentur, nos testes erimus.
“The memory of deeds. The truth of time. The facts will speak — we shall be their witnesses.”
On the back, beside your card's number, her blessing:
Clio vestigia tua servet. Relinque, o homo, memoriam aere perenniorem.
“May Clio preserve your traces. Leave behind, O human, a memory more lasting than bronze.”
Choosing a gift?
What to give a historian — They already know more history than the gift shop does.
Dark academia gifts — The aesthetic is about study. The gifts should be too.
Questions
- Who was Clio in Greek myth?
- The Muse of history and of deeds worth recording; her name comes from kleos, renown. She carries the scroll, and in later depictions the closed book of what has already happened.
- What is engraved on the back of the Clio card?
- May Clio preserve your traces. Leave behind, O human, a memory more lasting than bronze. — together with the ornament and the card's own number.
- Who is the Clio card a good gift for?
- Historians, archivists, teachers of history, genealogists — and anyone who keeps a record for its own sake. A common choice for a retirement or a long tenure, where the gift marks a body of work rather than an occasion.
