Thalia (muse)
Thalia ( taˈliːə Θάλεια Tháleia , "blooming happiness, happy feast, festival"; from ancient Greek θάλλειν thállein "bloom") is one of the nine muses in Greek mythology .
She is the muse of comic poetry and entertainment. Later on, Thalia was widely regarded as the protector of all theater venues . Her symbols, with which she is represented or described, are the comical mask , the ivy wreath and the shepherd's crook .
Thalia is considered a rural woman and, like all muses, is a daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne . She gave birth to the god Apollon the corybants - priests who castrated themselves to be closer to their goddess Cybele .
In Virgil's Sixth Eclogue , Thalia appears as a learned and tender muse who is close to rural festivals and leisure. With Horace, however, she shows herself as one of the graces who "preside over the festival choirs of the Roma nobilis ". At Ovid , Thalia is listed as a synonym for the love strategies he wrote.
Namesake
Friedrich Schiller already gave his journal, which was published from 1784 to 1791 on primarily historical, philosophical, literary and theater-related topics, the name of the Greek muse. Later she worked at theaters in several German cities, such as Dresden , Halle , Hamburg , Hanover and Wuppertal , as well as in Vienna as namesake.
In 1907, the Austrian Lloyd cruise ship was christened the muses, and the Thalia, which was commissioned in 1909, is still operating on the Wörthersee today as one of the last steam-powered excursion ships .
literature
- Christine Walde : Thaleia 1. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01470-3 , Sp. 236.
Web links
- Thalia in the Theoi Project (English)
Remarks
- ↑ Duden | Thalia | Spelling, meaning, definition, origin. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Hesiod, Theogony 76-80; Libraries of Apollodorus 1.13.
- ^ Horace, carmina 4,6.
- ↑ Christine Walde : Thaleia 1. In: Der Neue Pauly (DNP). Volume 12, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01470-3 , Sp. 236.
- ↑ Ovid, Tristia 4,10,55f.