Thalia
One of the Muses who presided over festivals and comic poetry.
Thalassius, Talassius, or Talassio. A Roman senator of the time of Romulus. At the time of the rape of the Sabine women, when a maiden of surpassing beauty was carried off for Thalassius, the persons conducting her, in order to protect her against any assaults from others, exclaimed, "For Thalassius."
Hence, it is said, arose the wedding shout with which a bride at Rome was conducted to the house of her bridegroom.
Thamyris or Thamyras. An ancient Thracian , who was a son of Philammon and the nymph Argiope. In his presumption he challenged the Muses to a trial of skill, and, being overcome in the contest, was deprived by them of his sight and of the power of singing. He was represented with a broken lyre in his hand.
Thebre (Great City of Jove). The capital of Thebais or Upper Egypt, and for a long time of the whole country. The Egyptians believed it to have been the first city founded upon the earth; and we have no account at the present day of any of earlier origin.
Thebae (in Europe). The chief city in Boeotia.
It is said that the fortifications of the city were constructed by Amphion and his brother Zethus; and that, when Amphion played his lyre, the stones moved of their own accord, and formed the wall. No city is more celebrated in the mythical ages of Greece than