![]() ![]() The sea replies that if they know as much, they should avoid such contact. In yet another fable, Perry’s number 412 and only recorded by Syntipas, the rivers complain to the sea that their sweet water is turned undrinkably salty by contact with her. But for the winds, “by nature I am as calm and safe as the land.” Otherwise, “I am gentler than that dry land of yours.” In the other, a survivor from a shipwreck accuses the sea of treachery and receives the same excuse. Assuming the form of a woman, she answers by blaming the winds for her turbulence. In one, numbered 168 in the Perry Index, a farmer witnesses a shipwreck and reproaches the sea for being “an enemy of mankind”. Two rather similar fables are recorded by Babrius. Literature Thalassa defends herself in Aesop's fable, "The Farmer and the Sea" With her male counterpart Pontus, she spawns the species of fish. 64 BC – AD 17), in the preface to his Fabulae, calls "Mare" (Sea) the daughter of Aether and Dies (Day), and thus the sister of Terra (Earth) and Caelus (Sky). 1st century BC), in his Bibliotheca historica, states that "Thalatta" is the mother of the Telchines and the sea-nymph Halia, while in the Orphic Hymn to the Sea, Tethys, who is here equated with Thalassa, is called the mother of Kypris ( Aphrodite). ![]() Mythology Īccording to a scholion on Apollonius of Rhodes, the fifth-century BC poet Ion of Chios had Thalassa as the mother of Aegaeon (Briareus, one of the Hecatoncheires). The word may have been of Pre-Greek origin. ![]() Thálassa, lit. "sea" Attic Greek: Θάλαττα, Thálatta ) was the general word for 'sea' and for its divine female personification in Greek mythology. A 5th century Roman mosaic of Thalassa in the Hatay Archaeological Museum For other uses, see Thalassa (disambiguation). ![]()
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