Thalia (Muse)
Thalia | |
---|---|
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 |
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Palestra_grande_di_pompei%2C_affreschi_di_Moregine%2C_primo_triclinio_%2C_IV_stile%2C_epoca_neroniana%2C_le_muse_07_talia.jpg/220px-Palestra_grande_di_pompei%2C_affreschi_di_Moregine%2C_primo_triclinio_%2C_IV_stile%2C_epoca_neroniana%2C_le_muse_07_talia.jpg)
In Greek mythology, Thalia (/
Appearance
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
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
-
"David Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy" by Joshua Reynolds (1760). Thalia is pictured left, and Melpomene to the right
-
Engraving by Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617)
-
Portrait of Françoise-Marie-Jeanne Picquefeu de Longpré, as Thalia, Muse of Comedy Louis-Michel van Loo (1765–1766)
-
(1739)
See also
Notes
- ^ "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
- 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
Media related to Thalia at Wikimedia Commons
- Warburg Institute Iconographic Database
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- Articles having different image on Wikidata and Wikipedia
- Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text
- Commons category link is locally defined
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- Greek Muses
- Ancient Greek comedy
- Children of Zeus
- Women of Apollo
- Greek goddesses
- Ancient Greek theatre
- Music and singing goddesses
- Wisdom goddesses
- Metamorphoses characters