Thalia (nymph)

In Greek mythology, Thalia or Thaleia ( or ; Tháleia, "the joyous, the abundance", from / thállein, "to flourish, to be green") was a nymph daughter of Hephaestus, and the mother of the Palici.Smith, s.v. Palici.

Mythology Macrobius's Saturnales (song V) states how Zeus had sex with her near the river Symethe on Sicily. She buried herself in the ground to avoid Hera's jealousy. Her twin children, the Palici, were thus born under the earth,Macrobius, Saturnalia 5.19.18 (pp. 440, 441). though other authors make the Palici the sons of Hephaestus or Adranus. According to a late-antiquity Christian author, Zeus seduced Thalia by transforming into a vulture.Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.22

See also

Thalia (Muse) Thalia (Nereid) Thalia (Grace)

Notes

References Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). "Thaleia" 3.

External links THALIA from The Theoi Project