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Antigone was so bitter that she hanged herself. Thetis attempted to render her son Achilles invulnerable. Thetis was raised by Hera and she was very grateful to the Zeus's wife. Pelion, which took its name from Peleus.

Eurytion received the barest mention among the Argonauts (both Peleus and Telamon were Argonauts themselves) "yet not together, nor from one place, for they dwelt far apart and distant from Aigina;"[7] but Peleus accidentally killed Eurytion during the hunt for the Calydonian Boar and fled from Phthia. When Peleus and his brother Telamon were banished from their father Aeacus’ kingdom of Aegina, Peleus went to Phthia to be purified by his uncle King Eurytion, whose daughter Antigone he married, receiving a third of Eurytion’s kingdom. Peleus was purified of the murder of Eurytion in Iolcus by Acastus. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree.... Who is the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Ares? In Greek mythology, Peleus was a hero, king of Phthia, husband of Thetis and the father of their son Achilles. Thetis was a Nereid, one of the daughters of Nereus and Doris, while Peleus was a mortal, son of king Aeacus and of Endeis.

Acastus took Peleus on a hunting trip atop Mount Pelion and once Peleus fell asleep, Acastus hid his sword away and abandoned him on the mountainside. Peleus later won the sea nymph Thetis by capture, and all the gods except Eris (the goddess of discord) were invited to the wedding. A Peleus by Sophocles is lost.

Peleus and his brother Telamon killed their step-brother Phocus (son of Aeacus and nereid Psamathe). Two versions of Peleus' fate account for this; in Euripides' Troades, Acastus, son of Pelias, has exiled him from Phthia;[13] and subsequently he dies in exile; in another, he is reunited with Thetis and made immortal. During the Calydonian boar hunt he accidentally killed Eurytion. Because the Kalydonian Boar Hunt was taking place in the kingdom of his father-in-law (Eurytion) Peleus too took part.

This is where the term "Achilles' heel" is derived from.

When they reached the region of Phthia, Peleus fell in love with Antigone, the daughter of the region's king Eurytion, with whom he had a daughter, Polydora. [4] He married the sea-nymph Thetis with whom he fathered Achilles. She was courted by both Zeus and Poseidon, but neither of them married her, out of fear of a prophecy that said Thetis ' son would surpass his father in glory. During the feast, Eris, in revenge for not being invited, produced the Apple of Discord, which started the quarrel that led to the Judgement of Paris and eventually the Trojan War. Only one son survived, who was named Achilles. He then went to Iolcos to be purified by King Acastus, whose wife Astydameia made advances to him. Peleus reached Iolcus, where the king's wife, Astydameia, fell in love with him. Along with his brother Telamon, they accidentally killed their half-brother, Phocus, while hunting, and were forced to flee the island of Aegina, in order to avoid punishment. Dennis D. Hughes, Photius, Bibliotheca excerpts, 190.46 - EN, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peleus&oldid=976222351, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 1 September 2020, at 20:46. Peleus escaped, ransacked Iolcus, and killed both Astydameia and Acastus. Peleus was the son of Aeacus, king of the island of Aegina,[3] and Endeïs, the oread of Mount Pelion in Thessaly. Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite started arguing over who should be the one to receive the apple, and told Zeus to decide.

The marriage of Peleus and Thetis produced seven sons, six of whom died in infancy.

In the Iliad, Achilles uses Peleus' immortal horses and also wields his father's spear. Peleus was saved by Chiron, a wise centaur, or Hermes, the messenger god. [15] And there was his tomb, according to a poem in the Greek Anthology. Peleus makes off with his prize bride Thetis, who has vainly assumed animal forms to … Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Though there were no further kings in Aegina, the kings of Epirus claimed descent from Peleus in the historic period.[5].

Thetis and Peleus were a famous couple (for several reasons) in Greek mythology. [8] He pillaged Iolcus and dismembered Astydameia, then marched his army between the rended limbs.

(Farnell 1921:311).

The golden apple that Eris spitefully sent to the wedding guests led to the “judgment of Paris” and thence to the Trojan War.

Peleus, in Greek mythology, king of the Myrmidons of Thessaly; he was most famous as the husband of Thetis (a sea nymph) and the father of the hero Achilles, whom he outlived. This was the event that eventually culminated in the Trojan War. Thetis , is a figure from Greek mythology with varying mythological roles. [16], The only other reference to veneration of Peleus comes from the Christian Clement of Alexandria, in his polemical Exhortation to the Greeks.

Peleus inadvertently killed his father while trying to kill the boar.

Peleus and his brother Telamon killed their half-brother Phocus, perhaps in a hunting accident and certainly in an unthinking moment,[6] and fled Aegina to escape punishment.

He was able to win her over with the aid of Proteus, who instructed Peleus to hold onto her tightly through all of her physical transformations she used to try to escape. Peleus, in Greek mythology, king of the Myrmidons of Thessaly; he was most famous as the husband of Thetis (a sea nymph) and the father of the hero Achilles, whom he outlived. As a result, Antigone hanged herself. In the well-known version, she dipped him in the River Styx, holding him by one heel, which remained vulnerable. Peleus denied her advances, and for revenge, Astydameia sent a message to Antigone, saying that Peleus would marry her daughter. Thetis decided to make Achilles invulnerable by dipping him in the River Styx; however, she did not realise that his heel, the part from which she was holding him, was not touched by the river waters, and was thus left vulnerable. Some time later, yet in another hunting accident, Peleus killed Eurytion and had to flee. Peleus was too old to fight in that conflict and gave his armour to his son Achilles. By way of apology for Clement, Farnell suggests "human sacrifice was occasionally an adjunct of hero-cults, and this at Pella may have been an exceptional rite prescribed at a crisis by some later oracle."

In Greek mythology, Peleus (/ˈpiːliəs, ˈpiːljuːs, ˈpɛliəs, ˈpɛl.juːs/; Ancient Greek: Πηλεύς Pēleus, "muddy"[1]) was a hero, king of Phthia, husband of Thetis and the father of their son Achilles. In antiquity, according to a fragment of Callimachus' lost Aitia,[14] there was a tomb of Peleus in Ikos (modern Alonissos), an island of the northern Sporades; there Peleus was venerated as "king of the Myrmidons" and the "return of the hero" was celebrated annually.

Peleus: GreekMythology.com - Oct 10, 2020, Greek Mythology iOS Volume Purchase Program VPP for Education App. See Also: Aeacus, Endeis, Thetis, Achilles, Telamon, Phocus, Jason, Argonauts, Eris, Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, Zeus, Paris, Trojan War. After Antigone's death, Peleus married the sea-nymph Thetis.

Peleus was a hero in Greek mythology, son of Aeacus, king of the island of Aegina, and Endeis, an oread nymph. Acastus and Astydamia were dead and the kingdom fell to Jason's son, Thessalus. Astydameia then told Acastus that Peleus had tried to rape her. This later became Achilles' doom, as a poisonous arrow shot by Paris and guided by Apollo during the Trojan War hit him in his heel and killed him.

Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. Though the tomb of Aeacus remained in a shrine enclosure in the most conspicuous part of the port city, a quadrangular enclosure of white marble sculpted with bas-reliefs, in the form in which Pausanias saw it, with the tumulus of Phocus nearby,[12] there was no temenos of Peleus at Aegina.

However, the goddess of strife, Eris, was not invited; angry that she was scorned, Eris dropped the Apple of Discord among the guests, a golden apple that had an inscription reading "To the fairest". Aided by Proteus, Peleus managed to win her heart. Astydameia then falsely accused Peleus of trying to rape her; the king, Acastus, took Peleus into a forest where he abandoned him just before an attack by centaurs. Peleus gave Achilles to the centaur Chiron, to raise on Mt. He appears as a character in Euripides' tragedy Andromache (c. 425 BC).

Peleus, Telamon, and Eurytion were all participants in the Argonautic Expedition, in Jason's quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece. Thetis was a sea nymph in Greek mythology, or according to some myths, one of the Nereids, the fifty daughters of the sea god Nereus and Doris. Peleus and Thetis had seven sons, but the six of them died when they were born.

[9] Their wedding feast was attended by many of the Olympian gods.

The only surviving son was Achilles.