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In [[Greek mythology]], '''Thalia''' or '''Thaleia''' ("good cheer") was the [[muse]] of comedy and pastoral poetry. She was a rural goddess with the attributes of a comic mask and a shepherd's crook. Her names came from ''θάλλεω'', meaning "to bloom". By the god Apollo came the Corybantes, priests who castrated themselves in accordance to the goddess Cybele.

Thalia was also the name of one of the [[Charites]], and the name of a [[nymph]] who was the mother of the [[Palici]] with [[Zeus]] or [[Hephaestus]]. The nymph Thalia may have been the same as the Muse or Charite.

Thalia is sometimes referred to as Thasia.

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Irlandos at 13:08, March 15, 2006