InGreek mythology,Thalia orThaleia (/ˈθeɪliə/^[1] or/θəˈlaɪə/;^[2]Ancient Greek: ΘάλειαTháleia "the joyous, the abundance") was one of the fiftyNereids, marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea'Nereus and theOceanidDoris. Her name was derived from θάλλεινthállein which means "to flourish, to be green".

Thaleia was mentioned as one of the 33 Nereids who gather on the coast ofTroy from the depths of the sea to mourn withThetis who cried out in sympathy for the grief of her sonAchilles for his slain loverPatroclus inHomer'sIliad.^[3]

In some accounts, Thalia, together with her sistersCymodoce,Nesaea andSpio, was one of the nymphs in the train ofCyrene^[4] Later on, these four together with their other sisters Thetis,Melite andPanopea, were able to help the heroAeneas and his crew during a storm.^[5]

• Thalia (Muse)
• Thalia (Grace)
• Thalia (nymph)

• Grimal, Pierre,The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996,ISBN 978-0-631-20102-1."Thalia" 3. p. 442.
• Homer,The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer,Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Vergilius Maro,Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Vergilius Maro,Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900.Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Vergilius Maro,Bucolics,Aeneid, and Georgics of Vergil. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Smith, William;Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873)."Thaleia" 2.

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