Thalassa was a character on Xena: Warrior Princess. She first met Xena sometime after the Battle of Corinth, where Xena tied her up and allowed crabs to eat her alive. Xena presumed she had died, but the crabs ate her arm, releasing her from being tied and she escaped.
Mentally and physically scarred by the Warrior Princess, she went into hiding. When she came out, she became the commandant at Shark Island Prison. She issued a warrant for Xena's arrest and reeled her into Shark Island Prison.
This led Gabrielle to go under the guise of a healer and rescue Xena from prison. She treated Thalassa's wounds and the two seemed to have clicked, talking about finding her lost soul. This relationship with Gabrielle helped catalyse Thalassa forgiving Xena (along with Xena saving her life), and Xena being released from prison.
She was played by Katrina Browne.
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- the actress who played Thalassa also played Mendala in "When in Rome...", Cyane in 6 episodes of Young Hercules and 2 different characters in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys; Siri in "Prodigal Sister" and Haleh in "A Wicked Good Time".
- "Thalassa" means "sea" in ancient Greek. In mythology Thalassa was the primordial goddess (protogenos) of the sea. Mingled with Pontos (Pontus), her male counterpart, she produced the fish and other sea creatures.
Thalassa was the literal body of the sea and in the fables of Aesop, manifests as a woman formed of sea-water rising from her native element. Thalassa is depicted in Greco-Roman mosaics as a matronly woman, half-submerged in the sea, with crab-claw horns, seaweed for clothes, and a ship's oar in her hand. was the primordial goddess (protogenos) of the sea. Thalassa was the literal body of the sea and in the fables of Aesop, manifests as a woman formed of sea-water rising from her native element. Poseidon and Amphitrite, the anthropomorphic king and queen of the sea, were the rulers of the elemental Pontos and Thalassa.