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Not to be confused with the eldest of The Graces, Thalia, Goddess of festivity and rich banquets.



Thalia is one of The Nine Muses and the Goddess of Idyllic Poetry and Comedy in Greek Mythology.

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Genealogy and Family[]

Thalia is the eighth born of The Nine Muses, daughters of Zeus, King of the Gods and Mnemosyne, Titan Goddess of Memory. According to Apollodorus she became the mother of The Corybantes by Apollo.

Role and Significance[]

She and the other Muses take after their mother, being Goddesses of memory, knowledge and art.

Story[]

  • Thalia and her sisters were each bore in one day.
  • She and her sisters were taught by their half-brother and leader, Apollo, God of the Sun, on Mount Olympus, who helped them develop their talents.

Appearance and Personality[]

Thalia was depicted with the form of a youthful woman, with an ivy crown, wearing boots and holding a comic mask in her hand. Many of her statues also hold a bugle and a trumpet (both used to support the actors' voices in ancient comedy), or occasionally a shepherd's staff or a wreath of ivy.

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Disney[]

Thalia is featured as a character in the Disney film, Hercules, alongside four other Muses, Melpomene, Calliope, Clio and Terpsicore, they are supporting characters and narrators in the movie, telling the stories of Hercules' life through songs. During the movie, the goddesses also have the ability to manifest themselves as statues or paintings in the mortal realm, to interact with the humans when neccesary. Even though, they live in Olympus, the muses are very in tune with the mortal realm, humble, friendly and driven to help humans, providing helpful advice and encouragement to them, such as with Meg, within the song, I Won't Say I'm In Love. Disney's Thalia is depicted as a Goddess with deep brown skin, dark brown hair worn in an updo, consisting of her hair tied into a ponytail, split into two, that sits on top of her head, instead of hanging low, she has wide dark brown eyes and takes on a Black African appearance like her sisters. She is by far the most petite of The Muses with a thick, plump figure, her outfit is a cream Greek style dress, with a split revealing her left leg, with cream ballet pumps, she wears purple lipstick and plays the trumpet. She is given a sassy, humorous, eccentric, yet very kind personality, adding much comic relief into the film, she has the deepest and most powerful singing voice of The Muses provided by Roz Ryan, singing much of the high and low notes within The Muses' songs.

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Muses - Disney

Thalia (first woman) alongside her sisters in Disney's Hercules.

Trivia[]

Her name means "the joyous, the flourishing" in Ancient Greek.

Θάλεια is the Ancient Greek spelling of her name.

Her name is was also spelt as Thaleia.

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