Thalassa
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Thalassa may refer to:
  • Thalassa (mythology)
    Thalassa (mythology)
    In Greek mythology, Thalassa is a primordial sea goddess, daughter of Aether and Hemera. With sea god Pontus, she was the mother of the nine Telchines and Halia. Sometimes, she was thought of as the mother of Aphrodite with Uranus or with Zeus. She is the personification of the Mediterranean Sea....

     ("sea"), a primordial Greek sea goddess
  • Thalassa (moon)
    Thalassa (moon)
    Thalassa , also known as Neptune IV, is the second innermost satellite of Neptune. Thalassa was named after sea goddesss Thalassa, a daughter of Aether and Hemera from Greek mythology. "Thalassa" is also the Greek word for "sea"....

    , a moon of the planet Neptune
  • Thalassa, a fictional planet (a waterworld) in Arthur C. Clarke's novel Songs of Distant Earth
    Songs of Distant Earth
    The Songs of Distant Earth is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1986. Clarke has claimed that it is his own favourite novel. He also wrote a short story and a short movie synopsis with the same title.-Plot summary:...

  • Thalassa (genus), a genus of ladybug
  • Thalassa (poem), the title of a late poem written by Louis MacNeice
    Louis MacNeice
    Frederick Louis MacNeice CBE was an Irish poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of "thirties poets" which included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis; nicknamed "MacSpaunday" as a group — a name invented by Roy Campbell, in his Talking Bronco...

  • Thalassa (band)
    Thalassa (band)
    Thalassa represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998. They performed the song "Mia Krifi Evesthisia".-History:Musician Yiannis Valvis and singer Dionisia Karoki formed the group expressly for the Eurovision Song Contest. After the national final, many artists complained that the victory...

    , a band which represented Greece at the Eurovision Song Contest 1998
  • Thalassa (TV series), a French documentary programme
  • Thalassa (book), a book by psychoanalyst Sándor Ferenczi
    Sándor Ferenczi
    Sándor Ferenczi was a Hungarian psychoanalyst, a key theorist of the psychoanalytic school and a close associate of Sigmund Freud.-Biography:...

  • RV , a ship of the Ifremer
    Ifremer
    Ifremer, standing for French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea is an oceanographic institution in France.- Scope of works :...

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  • Thalassa (tall ship), a barquentine sailing ship from the Netherlands

See also

  • Panthalassa
    Panthalassa
    Panthalassa , also known as the Panthalassic Ocean, was the vast global ocean that surrounded the supercontinent Pangaea, during the late Paleozoic and the early Mesozoic years. It included the Pacific Ocean to the west and north and the Tethys Ocean to the southeast...

  • Thalassia (disambiguation)
  • Thessaly
    Thessaly
    Thessaly is a traditional geographical region and an administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, Thessaly was known as Aeolia, and appears thus in Homer's Odyssey....

  • Thalatta! Thalatta!
    Thalatta! Thalatta!
    Thálatta! Thálatta! was the shouting of joy when the roaming 10,000 Greeks saw Euxeinos Pontos from Mount Theches in Armenia, after participating in Cyrus the Younger's failed march against the Persian Empire in the year 401 BC. The mountain was only a five-day march away from the friendly...

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