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Thalia (Grace)

One of the 3 Graces

Summary

One of the 3 Graces

Field	Value
type	Greek
name	Thalia
image	20140416 corfu217.JPG
caption	A statue of Thalia in Achilleion palace, Corfu
member_of	The Charites
deity_of	Goddess of festivity and rich banquets
cult_centre	Boeotia
siblings	Euphrosyne and Aglaea and several paternal half-siblings
parents	Zeus and Eurynome
affiliation	Aphrodite
abode	Mount Olympus

NOTOC In Greek mythology, Thalia or Thaleia ( or ; ) was one of the three Charites, along with her sisters Aglaea and Euphrosyne.

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. Alternative parentage may be Zeus and Eurydome, Eurymedousa, or Euanthe; Dionysus and Koroneia; or Helios and the Naiad 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, as part of her retinue.

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, 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.

References

"Home : Oxford English Dictionary".
"Definition of THALIA".
[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]],'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D901 907]
[[Lucius Annaeus Cornutus. Cornutus]], ''Compendium of Greek Theology'', 15
[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'', 15.87 & 48.530
[[Pausanias (geographer)
''Homeric Hymn 5 to Aphrodite'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0138%3Ahymn%3D5 58]
Homer, ''Iliad'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134%3Abook%3D8%3Acard%3D335 8.360-369]

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