Thaleia, Muse / Rhetia, Nymph

Thalia^[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalia_(Muse). (/θəˈlaɪə/; Ancient Greek: Θάλεια, Θαλία; “the joyous, the flourishing”, from Ancient Greek: θάλλειν, thállein; “to flourish, to be verdant”), also spelled Thaleia, was the Muse who presided over comedy and idyllic poetry. In this context her name means “flourishing”, because the praises in her songs flourish through time.^[1] She was the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne, the eighth-born of the nine Muses.

According to pseudo-Apollodorus, she and Apollo were the parents of the Corybantes.^[2] Other ancient sources, however, gave the Corybantes different parents.^[3]

She was portrayed as a young woman with a joyous air, crowned with ivy, wearing boots and holding a comic mask in her hand. Many of her statues also hold a bugle and a trumpet (both used to support the actors’ voices in ancient comedy), or occasionally a shepherd’s staff or a wreath of ivy.

http://www.theoi.com/Nymphe/NympheRhetia.html

RHETIA:^[2]http://www.mythindex.com/greek-mythology/R/Rhetia.html greek: ΡΗΤΙΑ

The mother of the Samothracian Corybantes by Apollo. [See CABEIRI.]

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalia_(Muse)
Sources: http://www.mythindex.com/greek-mythology/R/Rhetia.html

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