Peleus

Family: Greek · Role: son of Æacus · First appears: Fable 66

Peleus, son of Æacus, was one of three brothers with Telamon and Phocus: “Telamon, Peleus, and Phocus, were the three sons of Æacus.” In fable 69, he arrived with Æacus, Telamon, and newly levied soldiers, whom Cephalus received armed.

Peleus was the father of Achilles and the grandfather of Jupiter. In fable 96, he received Thetis as his wife, making Nereus his father-in-law: “But Peleus was distinguished by a Goddess for his wife.” He was later the sire of Pyrrhus.

Relationship record

Life events

• Æacus arrives with Telamon, Peleus, and newly levied soldiers, whom Cephalus receives armed.(Fable69)
  • With: Æacus Telamon Cephalus
  • “In tears, the hero is relating these things to them, as they weep, and, lo! Æacus enters, with his two sons,[119] and his soldiers newly levied; which Cephalus received, {furnished} with valorous arms.”
• Peleus receives the Goddess Thetis as his wife.(Fable96)
  • With: Thetis
  • “But Peleus was distinguished by a Goddess for his wife”

Fable 66

• parent: Æacus “Telamon, Peleus, and Phocus, were the three sons of Æacus.”
• siblings with Telamon “Telamon, Peleus, and Phocus, were the three sons of Æacus.”
• siblings with Phocus “Telamon, Peleus, and Phocus, were the three sons of Æacus.”

Fable 69

• parent: Æacus “These were Telamon and Peleus, who had levied these troops.”
• siblings with Telamon “These were Telamon and Peleus, who had levied these troops.”

Fable 70

• parent: Æacus “‘Æacidis’ may mean either the forces sent by Æacus, or his sons Telamon and Peleus, in command of those troops.”

Fable 73

• child: Achilles “the father, too, of the great Achilles”
• parent: Æacus “Peleus, the brother of Ajax, and the son of Æacus and Ægina.”

Fable 96

• with Jupiter (Peleus is identified as a grandson of Jupiter.) “Since, not to his lot alone did it fall to be the grandson of Jove”
• with Nereus (Nereus is identified in the footnote as Peleus's father-in-law.) “But Peleus was distinguished by a Goddess for his wife; nor was he more proud of the name of his grandfather than that of his father-in-law.[17] ... [Footnote 17: His father-in-law.--Ver. 219. Nereus, the father of Thetis; was a Divinity of the sea, and was gifted with the power of prophecy.]”
• married with Thetis (The Goddess is Thetis, identified in the chapter's note through Nereus, her father.) “But Peleus was distinguished by a Goddess for his wife; nor was he more proud of the name of his grandfather than that of his father-in-law.”

Fable 99

• siblings with Telamon “Peleus and Telamon, the fathers of Achilles and Ajax, were brothers”
• child: Achilles “Peleus and Telamon, the fathers of Achilles and Ajax, were brothers”
• child: Pyrrhus “Peleus is his sire, and Pyrrhus is his son.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.