Thalia (Muse)
Thalia | |
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Goddess of Comedy | |
Member of the Muses | |
Genealogy | |
Parents | Zeus and Mnemosyne |
Siblings | Euterpe, Polyhymnia, Urania, Clio, Erato, Calliope, Terpsichore, Melpomene and several paternal half-siblings |
Consort | Apollo |
Children | the Corybantes |
In Greek mythology, Thalia (/
Appearance
[edit]Thalia was portrayed as a young woman with a joyous air, crowned with ivy, wearing boots and holding a comic mask in her hand. Many of her statues also hold a bugle and a trumpet, or occasionally a shepherd's staff or a wreath of ivy.
Family
[edit]Thalia was the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne, the eighth-born of the nine Muses. According to Apollodorus, she and Apollo were the parents of the Corybantes.[5]
Gallery
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"David Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy" by Joshua Reynolds (1760). Thalia is pictured left, and Melpomene to the right
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Engraving by Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617)
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Portrait of Françoise-Marie-Jeanne Picquefeu de Longpré, as Thalia, Muse of Comedy Louis-Michel van Loo (1765–1766)
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(1739)
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ "Thalia". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
- ^ "Thalia Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster".
- ^ "Home : Oxford English Dictionary".
- ^ "Thalia | Greek mythology | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
- ^ Apollodorus, 1.3.4. Other ancient sources, however, gave the Corybantes different parents (see Frazer, n. 2 on 1.3.4).
References
[edit]- Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996, ISBN 978-0-631-20102-1. "Thalia" 1. p. 442.
- Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). "Thaleia" 1.
External links
[edit]- Media related to Thalia at Wikimedia Commons
- Warburg Institute Iconographic Database