Thaleia was mentioned as one of the 33 Nereids who gather on the coast of
Troy from the depths of the sea to mourn with
Thetis who cried out in sympathy for the grief of her son
Achilles for his slain lover
Patroclus in
Homer's Iliad.[3]
In some accounts, Thalia, together with her sisters
Cymodoce,
Nesaea and
Spio, was one of the nymphs in the train of
Cyrene[4] Later on, these four together with their other sisters Thetis,
Melite and
Panopea, were able to help the hero
Aeneas and his crew during a storm.[5]