Thisbe

thiz-bee

Greek mythological name, meaning unknown

Thisbe Origin and Meaning

The name Thisbe is a girl's name of Greek origin.

Thisbe, the name of a beautiful but tragic lover in mythology, is lively and cute -- in a slightly thistly, prickly way. Ovid retold the story of Thisbe and Pyramus, young lovers in ancient Babylon kept apart by family rivalry, which was the inspiration for Romeo and Juliet. A modern bearer of the name is writer Thisbe Nissen.

In Sarah Dessen's novel Along for the Ride, the baby daughter is named Thisby, nn Isby.

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Thisbe Nissenauthor
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Thisbe in Pop Culture

Thisbe Caroline "Isby" WestAuden's little half,sister in 'Along for the Ride' (2009) by Sarah Dessen
Aunt Thisbea black cook and housekeeper in "The Fire and the Hearth," the second of seven stories in 'Go Down, Moses' (1942) by William Faulkner
A genus of butterflycomprised of 7 species (the most widespread of which is Thisbe irenea)
According to PausaniasThisbe was a Boeotian city named after a nymph.
Tisbe (the Italian version) is the name given to one of the mean/ugly stepsisters in La Cenerentola (Cinderella)an opera by Rossini.
Thisbe Triskelioncharacter in Cruel Beauty
"Pyramus and Thisbe" the inspiration for Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and the play that the Mechanicals in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" put on for Theseus.