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Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the Ancient Greece, ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology. These stories conc ...
, Thalia or Thaleia ( or ; ) was one of the three
Charites, along with her sisters
Aglaea and
Euphrosyne.
[ Hesiod, '' Theogony,']
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The Greek word ''thalia'' is an adjective applied to banquets, meaning rich, plentiful, luxuriant and abundant.
Family
Typically, she was a daughter of Zeus and Oceanid Eurynome.Dionysus
In ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, myth, Dionysus (; ) is the god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre. He was also known as Bacchus ( or ; ...
and Koroneia; or Helios
In ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, mythology, Helios (; ; Homeric Greek: ) is the god who personification, personifies the Sun. His name is also Latinized as Helius, and he is often given the epithets Hyperion ("the one above") an ...
and the Naiad
In Greek mythology, the naiads (; ), sometimes also hydriads, are a type of female spirit, or nymph, presiding over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water.
They are distinct from river gods, who embodied ...
Aegle.
In art
In art, she and her sisters were usually depicted dancing in a circle. Thalia was the goddess of festivity and rich banquets and was associated with Aphrodite
Aphrodite (, ) is an Greek mythology, ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretism, syncretised Roman counterpart , desire, Sexual intercourse, sex, fertility, prosperity, and ...
, as part of her retinue
A retinue is a body of persons "retained" in the service of a noble, royal personage, or dignitary; a ''suite'' (French "what follows") of retainers.
Etymology
The word, recorded in English since circa 1375, stems from Old French ''retenue'', ...
.[Homer, ''Iliad'']
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File:Le tre Grazie.jpg, Thalia depicted with her sisters in Antonio Canova's sculpture '' The Three Graces''
Notes
References
* Apollodoros, ''Library'' (I, 3, 1).
* Hesiod, '' Theogony'' (v. 907–909).
* '' Orphic Hymns'' (LIX on the Charites).
* Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' (IX, 35, 1).
*Pindar
Pindar (; ; ; ) was an Greek lyric, Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes, Greece, Thebes. Of the Western canon, canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian wrote, "Of the nine lyric poets, Pindar i ...
, ''Odes'' (''Olympics'', 14, str. 1–2).
*Grimal, Pierre
over&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false ''The Dictionary of Classical Mythology''
Wiley-Blackwell, 1996,
"Thalia" 2. p. 442
* Smith, William; '' Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', London (1873)
"Thaleia" 4.
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