Achilles

Also known as: Peleus’ son · Family: Thessalian · Role: child · First appears: Book I 4

Life events

Hera foretells that Achilles will marry Medea in the Elysian plain.(Book IV 7)
- With: Hera Medea
- “When thy son shall come to the Elysian plain, he whom now in the home of Cheiron the Centaur water-nymphs are tending, though he still craves thy mother milk, it is fated that he be the husband of Medea, Aeetes’ daughter”
Peleus interrupts Thetis’s attempt to make Achilles immortal, causing her angry departure.(Book IV 7)
- With: Thetis Peleus
- “But Peleus leapt up from his bed and saw his dear son gasping in the flame; and at the sight he uttered a terrible cry, fool that he was; and she heard it, and catching up the child threw him screaming to the ground, and herself like a breath of wind passed swiftly from the hall as a dream and leapt into the sea, exceeding wroth, and thereafter returned not again.”

parent: Peleus “And with him his wife, bearing Peleus’ son Achilles on her arm, showed the child to his dear father.”

parent: Thetis “since first she left her bridal chamber and bed in anger, on account of noble Achilles, then a babe. For she ever encompassed the child’s mortal flesh in the night with the flame of fire”
parent: Peleus “But Peleus leapt up from his bed and saw his dear son gasping in the flame”
engaged with Medea “it is fated that he be the husband of Medea, Aeetes’ daughter”

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