Pausanias' Description of Greece

Thalia

Role: Grace · First appears: Book 9 · Chapter 35

In Book 9, Chapter 35, Hesiod is said to name Thalia among the Graces, daughters of Zeus and Eurynome. Antimachus offers a different account, saying the Graces were daughters of Ægle and the Sun God, without giving their number or names.

Relationship record

Book 9 · Chapter 35

  • parent: Zeus “Hesiod in the Theogony (if indeed Hesiod wrote the Theogony) says that these Graces are the daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, and that their names are Euphrosyne and Aglaia and Thalia.”
  • parent: Eurynome “Hesiod in the Theogony (if indeed Hesiod wrote the Theogony) says that these Graces are the daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, and that their names are Euphrosyne and Aglaia and Thalia.”
  • parent: Ægle “But Antimachus neither gives the number of the Graces nor their names, but says they were the daughters of Ægle and the Sun.”
  • parent: Sun God “But Antimachus neither gives the number of the Graces nor their names, but says they were the daughters of Ægle and the Sun.”

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