It is as if they were still crying ever in their unconscious memories, "Thalassa, Thalassa"; as if the very shells of speech still carried the roar of the ocean which they who hold them to their ears have never seen.
"The French in the Heart of America"
John Finley
In the original plan the sacred olive tree and the Thalassa were to stand in the large central chamber, but in the curtailed plan the sacred olive was left outside the temple and in the Pandroseum.
"Problems in Periclean Buildings"
G. W. Elderkin
In Sappho and Phaon she asserts her independence of Aphrodite's good will, and in revenge the goddess turns Phaon's affection away from Sappho, back to Thalassa, the mother of his children.
"The Poet's Poet"
Elizabeth Atkins