Pelias

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.9

🌐 Also appears in: The Odyssey (as Pelias) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Pelias) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Pelias)

Life events

• Medea deceives Pelias's daughters into killing and boiling their father; Acastus expels Jason and Medea.(Apollodorus, Library 1.9 · 📍 Iolcus)
  • With: Medea Acastus
  • “So they believed her, made mince meat of their father and boiled him. But Acastus buried his father with the help of the inhabitants of Iolcus, and he expelled Jason and Medea from Iolcus.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.9

• parent: Tyro “she secretly gave birth to twin sons, whom she exposed.”
• parent: Poseidon “But Poseidon in the likeness of Enipeus lay with her”
• married with Anaxibia “But Pelias dwelt in Thessaly and married Anaxibia, daughter of Bias, but according to some his wife was Phylomache, daughter of Amphion”
• child: Acastus “and he begat a son, Acastus, and daughters, Pisidice, Pelopia, Hippothoe, and Alcestis.”
• child: Alcestis “and he begat a son, Acastus, and daughters, Pisidice, Pelopia, Hippothoe, and Alcestis.”
• enemies with Medea “afterwards he exhorted Medea to devise how he could punish Pelias.”
• siblings with Neleus “the one with the livid ( pelion ) mark he called Pelias, and the other Neleus.”
• enemies with Sidero “Pelias cut her down on the very altars”
• with Jason (interaction) “he sent for Jason, among many others, to participate in it.”

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