A comedy watchedWineIvyA joke told wellLaughter at yourself
Invocation Approach
Tone
Warm quick
Address
ThaliaBlooming OneMuse of Comedy
Relationship
The laughter that lets a thing be survived
Warning
She is not the grace of the same name and the joke has to land
Resonance
Comic writers celebrants and those carrying a hard year
Symbols
The comic maskThe shepherds staffThe ivy crownThe thyrsus
Mythology Summary
Thalia, blooming, is one of the nine Muses named by Hesiod (Theogony 77), daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, and she becomes the Muse of comedy and of festive, bucolic song in the later handbooks. She shares her name with one of the Charites, and the two are not the same figure: the Muse is a daughter of Mnemosyne, the Grace a daughter of Eurynome. The Muses were worshipped as a college at Helicon and in the Thespian Mouseia (Pausanias 9.29-30), while comedy was staged at Athens in the festivals of Dionysus.
Modern Practice
The Muse of the joke that holds: invoked by comic writers, by hosts, and by anyone who has to get a room through a hard year. The practice is the mask and the timing - comedy as a form that lets a thing be looked at directly.