Thalassa

The personification of the Mediterranean Sea, a child of Aether and Hemera. Thalassa is the mother of Halia and the Telchines,1 and the mother of the tribes of fishes by Pontus.2

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References

Notes

  1. Diodorus Siculus, v, 55.1.
  2. Fabulae: Preface.

Sources

  • Hyginus. Fabulae: Preface, 2.
  • Lucian. Dialogues of Sailors, 11.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.