Pelias

Family: Thessaly · Role: father slain through Medea's persuasion · First appears: Euripides, Medea — Scene 1

Life events

• Medea kills Pelias through the hands of his own children.(Euripides, Medea — Scene 3)
  • With: Medea
  • “And I slew Pelias by a death which it is most miserable to die, by the hands of his own children”

Euripides, Medea — Scene 1

• enemies with Medea “nor having persuaded the daughters of Pelias to slay their father would she have inhabited this country of Corinth with her husband and her children”

Euripides, Medea — Scene 4

• enemies with Medea “I trust thee; but the house of Pelias is mine enemy, and Creon too”

Euripides, Alcestis — Scene 1

• child: Alcestis “who then promised, in order to redeem her husband, herself, the daughter of Pelias, to die for him?”

Euripides, The Trojan Captives — Scene 8

• child: Acastus “And that Pelias’ son / Acastus hath expelled him from his realm,”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.