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Erato was named with the other muses in Hesiod's Theogony.

She was also invoked at the beginning of a lost poem, Rhadine (), that was referred to and briefly quoted by Strabo.

The love story of Rhadine made her supposed tomb on the island of Samos a pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers in the time of Pausanias and Erato was linked again with love in Plato's Phaedrus ; nevertheless, even in the third century BCE, when Apollonius wrote, the Muses were not yet as inextricably linked to specific types of poetry as they became.