Mar 8, 2023 · 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. …

Jul 31, 2023 · 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 …

Mar 10, 2023 · Etymology. The origin of the name “Tethys” (Greek Τηθύς, translit. Tēthýs) remains elusive.In antiquity, the philosopher Plato suggested a fanciful etymology for the …

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 …

Jun 28, 2023 · When Dionysus introduced his cult in Thrace, he was met with resistance from Lycurgus, the king of the Edonians. In one early tradition, Lycurgus attacked Dionysus’ band of …

Sep 20, 2023 · 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. …

The gods deliberate about the redemption of Hector’s body. Jupiter sends Thetis to Achilles, to dispose him for the restoring it, and Iris to Priam, to encourage him to go in person and treat …

Aug 31, 2023 · 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 …

May 20, 2023 · Hyginus, Astronomica 2.18 mentions a daughter of Chiron called Melanippe or Thetis, but this looks like a jumbled summary of the tradition found in Euripides’ fragmentary …

Feb 7, 2023 · Somewhat later, in the unfinished Achilleid of Statius (ca. 45/50–ca. 96 BCE), the goddess Thetis tries to make her son Achilles immortal by dipping him in the waters of the …