Thalestria, or Thalestris, a queen of the Amazons, who, accompanied by 300 women, came 35 days’ journey to meet Alexander in his Asiatic conquests, to raise children by a man whose fame was so great, and courage so uncommon. Curtius, bk. 6, ch. 5.—Strabo, bk. 11.—Justin, bk. 2, ch. 4.
Thaletes, a Greek poet of Crete, 900 B.C.
Thălīa, one of the Muses, who presided over festivals, and over pastoral and comic poetry. She is represented leaning on a column, holding a mask in her right hand, by which she is distinguished from her sisters, as also by a shepherd’s crook. Her dress appears shorter, and not so ornamented as that of the other Muses. Horace, bk. 4, ode 6, li. 25.—Martial, bk. 9, ltr. 75.—Plutarch, Convivium Septem Sapientium, &c.—Virgil, Eclogues, poem 6, li. 2.——One of the Nereides. Hesiod, Theogony.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 5, li. 826.——An island in the Tyrrhene sea.
Thallo, one of the Horæ or Seasons, who presided over the spring. Pausanias, bk. 9, ch. 35.
Thalpius, a son of Eurytus, one of Helen’s suitors. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 10.
Thalyssia, Greek festivals celebrated by the people of the country in honour of Ceres, to whom the first fruits were regularly offered. Scholia on Theocritus, poem 3.
Thamĭras, a Cilician who first introduced the art of augury in Cyprus, where it was religiously preserved in his family for many years. Tacitus, Histories, bk. 2, ch. 3.
Thamuda, a part of Arabia Felix.
Thamyras, or Thamyris, a celebrated musician of Thrace. His father’s name was Philammon, and his mother’s Argiope. He became enamoured of the Muses, and challenged them to a trial of skill. His challenge was accepted, and it was mutually agreed that the conqueror should be totally at the disposal of his victorious adversary. He was conquered, and the Muses deprived him of his eyesight and his melodious voice, and broke his lyre. His poetical compositions are lost. Some accused him of having first introduced into the world the unnatural vice of which Sotades is accused. Homer, Iliad, bk. 2, li. 594; bk. 5, li. 599.—Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 3.—Ovid, Amores, bk. 3, poem 7, li. 62; Ars Amatoria, bk. 3, li. 399.—Pausanias, bk. 4, ch. 33.
Thamyris, one of the petty princes of the Dacæ, in the age of Darius, &c.——A queen of the Massagetæ. See: [Thomyris].——A Trojan killed by Turnus. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 12, li. 341.