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Thalatta! Thalatta! She is our great sweet mother. Come and look." In Book 18, Molly Bloom echoes the phrase in the closing moments of her monologue: "and O that awful deepdown torrent O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire." [12]
A 5th century Roman mosaic of Thalassa, in the Hatay Archaeological Museum [1]. Thalassa (/ θ ə ˈ l æ s ə /; Ancient Greek: Θάλασσα, romanized: Thálassa, lit. 'sea'; [2] Attic Greek: Θάλαττα, Thálatta [3]) was the general word for 'sea' and for its divine female personification in Greek mythology.
Thalattosaurus (pronounced: / θ ə ˌ l æ t ə ˈ s ɔːr ə s /, "tha-la-to-SORE-us") meaning "sea lizard," from the Attic Greek thalatta (θάλαττα), "sea," and sauros (σαῦρος), "lizard," is an extinct genus of marine reptile in the family Thalattosauroidea. They were aquatic diapsids that are known exclusively from the Triassic ...
Thalatta! Thalatta! (Θάλαττα! θάλαττα!, "The Sea! The Sea!"). Trapezus (Trebizond) was the first Greek city the Ten Thousand reached on their retreat from inland Persia, 19th-c. illustration by Herman Vogel. The Hellenes travel through the land of the Carduchii and lose two warriors when Cheirisophus does not slow for Xenophon on ...
Thálatta! Thálatta! (Greek: Θάλαττα! θάλαττα!— "The Sea! The Sea!") was the shouting of joy when the roaming 10,000 Greeks saw Euxeinos Pontos (the Black Sea) from Mount Theches (Θήχης) in Trebizond, after participating in Cyrus the Younger's failed march against the Persian Empire in the year 401 BC.
The variant spelling/pronunciation Melitta is the Attic Greek dialect for Melissa. (Compare the Attic word for sea, thalatta, with the more common thalassa.)Within a fragment of the Orphic poetry, quoted by Natalis Comes, Melitta is spoken of as a hive, and called Seira, or the hive of Venus:
Thalatta is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae described by Francis Walker in 1858. The species of this genus are from India, South-east Asia and Sundaland. [1]
Thalatta!" – "The sea! The sea!", the local people understood them. They were Greeks too and, according to Xenophon, they had been there for over 300 years. [48]