Thalia

Clio, Euterpe, and Thalia

"Blooming." The Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry. She also favored rural persuits. Her attributes are a comic mask, a wreath of ivy, and a shepherd's crook. She became the mother of the Corybantes by Apollo.1

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Iconography

Thalia is portrayed with the comic mask in one hand and the sheperd's crook in the other.

References

Notes

  1. Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library i, 3.4; Plato. Symposium ix, 14.

Sources

  • Aken, Dr. A.R.A. van. (1961). Elseviers Mythologische Encyclopedie. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
  • Cooper, J.C., ed. (1997). Brewer's Book of Myth and Legend. Oxford: Helicon Publishing Ltd.
  • Hesiod. Theogony, 77.