Thalia - Retreat Room
Thalia is a large double room with matching antique furnishings, a decorative fireplace with a large wooden mantle, and two large French windows overlooking the valley.
The room also has a newly renovated walk-in en-suite shower.
This room shares a toilet across the hall with two other rooms.
Thalia Rates
Three-week rate:
1125 Euros for one person, July – August.
1025 Euros for one person, September – June.
One-week rate:
525 Euros for one person.
There is an additional 25% charge for couples.
Melpomene and Thalia can be rented together as a bedroom and private study, depending on availability.
Of all the muses names Thalia‘s has the loveliest meaning: “the joyous, the flourishing”, from the Greek “to flourish, to be verdant.”
She was, is, the Muse of comedy and idyllic poetry. Her songs are supposed to flourish through time, because they are, well, idyllic.
As with the other muses at La Muse she was the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne, the eighth daughter born of the nine Muses.
She usually has a crown of ivy and wears boots and holds a comic mask in her hand or beside her.
Some of her statues have her holding a bugle and a trumpet. Both these helped actors in ancient comedy.
The character of Thalia Grace in Percy Jackson and the Olympians book series appears to be named after her. There’s a great Roman statue of her, above, from Hadrian’s Villa, presently at the Prado Museum in Madrid.