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Thalia

In Greek mythology, the Muse of comedy and pastoral or idyllic poetry. In art she is shown with a comic mask, shepherd's staff, or ivy wreath. She is also one of the three Graces of classical mythology.



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"How right to call Thalia to the feast:" and of some others he says:
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context
Three beautiful goddesses, Aglaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne,
The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
There were Glauce, Thalia and Cymodoce, Nesaia, Speo, Thoe and dark-eyed Halie, Cymothoe, Actaea and Limnorea, Melite, Iaera, Amphithoe and Agave, Doto and Proto, Pherusa and Dynamene, Dexamene, Amphinome and Callianeira, Doris, Panope, and the famous sea-nymph Galatea, Nemertes, Apseudes and Callianassa.
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