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Thetis – Mythopedia Thetis married Peleus, a mortal hero who gained fame as one of the Argonauts, with whom she had a son: Achilles, the greatest hero of the Trojan War Mythology Origins Thetis was born to the sea gods Nereus and Doris, one of fifty daughters known as the Nereids She was said to have been raised by Hera, wife of Zeus and queen of the gods
Achilles – Mythopedia Thetis dipping Achilles in the River Styx by Thomas Banks (1789) Victoria and Albert Museum, London Public Domain In another version, Thetis anointed the infant Achilles with ambrosia by day and held him over the fire by night But one night Peleus interrupted Thetis during this process and snatched Achilles away in horror
Eurynome - Mythopedia The two goddesses took Hephaestus in and nursed him back to health Because of this kindness, Hephaestus always loved and honored both Eurynome and Thetis Illustration showing Eurynome and Thetis nursing the young Hephaestus by John Flaxman (1910) John Flaxman's Zeichnungen zu Sagen des Klassischen Altertums Public Domain
Tethys - Mythopedia Etymology The origin of the name “Tethys” (Greek Τηθύς, translit Tēthýs) remains elusive In antiquity, the philosopher Plato suggested a fanciful etymology for the name, seeing it as a compound of the Greeks words διαττώμενον (diattṓmenon, “strained”) and ἠθούμενον (ēthoúmenon, “filtered”)
Nereids - Mythopedia Thetis, for example, married the mortal hero Peleus and became the mother of the great Achilles; Amphitrite married Poseidon, the Olympian god of the sea, and became the mother of Triton and Rhode (among others); Psamathe was the mother of Phocus (by Aeacus) and of Theoclymenus and Theonoe (by Proteus); and so on
Iliad: Book 18 (Full Text) - Mythopedia Thetis goes to the palace of Vulcan to obtain new arms for her son The description of the wonderful works of Vulcan: and, lastly, that noble one of the shield of Achilles The latter part of the nine-and-twentieth day, and the night ensuing, take up this book: the scene is at Achilles’ tent on the sea-shore, from whence it changes to the
Scylla - Mythopedia She ordered Thetis and the other Nereids to guide the Argo through the strait so that they would be neither swallowed up by Charybdis nor torn apart by Scylla Odysseus Odysseus, one of the Greek heroes of the Trojan War, was forced to sail through the strait of Scylla and Charybdis on his voyage home from Troy
Eris - Mythopedia The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis by Jacob Jordaens after Peter Paul Rubens (between 1633 and 1638) Museo del Prado, Madrid Public Domain Eventually, the handsome Trojan prince Paris was tasked with deciding the matter Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite all presented themselves to the prince
Hera – Mythopedia Thetis and Peleus later became the parents of Achilles Detail from an Attic red-figure kylix showing Peleus capturing Thetis as she changes shape, attributed to Douris (ca 490 BCE) Cabinet des Médailles, Paris Jastrow Public Domain It was at the wedding of Thetis and Peleus that the events leading to the Trojan War were first set in motion
Naiads - Mythopedia See, for example, Alcaeus, frag 44, where the Nereid Thetis is described as a Naiad, as well as Nonnus, Dionysiaca 26 355, where the Oceanid Ceto is described as a Naiad ↩; See Timothy Gantz, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993), 142 ↩