Thetis
Also known as: silver-shod Thetis · Family: Gods · Role: goddess · First appears: The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 41–60
Thetis, daughter of Nereus, avoided marriage with Zeus to please Hera, and Zeus swore that she would marry a mortal. At Phthia, she married Peleus; “the blessed gods have brought your marriage fully to pass.”
With Peleus, Thetis had children whom she put into a cauldron to discover where they were mortal, and many perished. Peleus stopped her from putting Achilles into the cauldron. At the great sea, Thetis took in and cared for Hephaestus with her sisters. After Achilles’s death, she came with the Muses and her sisters, took him from the pyre, and carried him to the White Island.
Relationship record
Life events
- Thetis avoided marriage with Zeus, and Zeus swore she should mate with a mortal.(The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 41–60)
- With: Zeus
- “The author of the Cypria says that Thetis avoided wedlock with Zeus to please Hera; but that Zeus was angry and swore that she should mate with a mortal.”
- Peleus’s marriage to Thetis was accomplished.(The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 41–60 · 📍 Phthia)
- With: Peleus
- “And all the people envied him in their hearts seeing how he had sacked the well-built city, and accomplished his joyous marriage;”
- Peleus prevented Thetis from throwing Achilles into the cauldron.(Aegimius)
- Many of Thetis and Peleus’s children perished in the cauldron.(Aegimius)
- With: Peleus
- “Thetis used to throw the children she had by Peleus into a cauldron of water, because she wished to learn where they were mortal.... ....And that after many had perished”
- Thetis, daughter of Nereus, takes in and cares for Hephaestus.(Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1 · 📍 the great sea)
- With: Hephaestus Nereus
- “But silver-shod Thetis the daughter of Nereus took and cared for him with her sisters”
- Peleus and Thetis marry.(The Cypria · Part 1)
- With: Peleus
- “Strife arrives while the gods are feasting at the marriage of Peleus”
- Thetis takes Achilles from the pyre and transports him to the White Island.(The Aethiopis · 📍 the White Island)
- With: Achilles
- “while Thetis, arriving with the Muses and her sisters, bewails her son, whom she afterwards catches away from the pyre and transports to the White Island.”
The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 41–60
- married with Peleus “For far-seeing Olympian Zeus has given you a wife with many gifts and the blessed gods have brought your marriage fully to pass, and in these halls you go up to the holy bed of a daughter of Nereus.”
- parent: Nereus “For far-seeing Olympian Zeus has given you a wife with many gifts and the blessed gods have brought your marriage fully to pass, and in these halls you go up to the holy bed of a daughter of Nereus.”
Aegimius
- child: Achilles “Thetis used to throw the children she had by Peleus into a cauldron of water, because she wished to learn where they were mortal.... ....And that after many had perished Peleus was annoyed, and prevented her from throwing Achilles into the cauldron.”
Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1
- parent: Nereus “But silver-shod Thetis the daughter of Nereus took and cared for him with her sisters;”
The Cypria · Part 1
- married with Peleus “Fragment #5—Scholiast on Homer, Il. xvii. 140: For at the marriage of Peleus and Thetis, the gods gathered together on Pelion to feast and brought Peleus gifts.”
- admirer: Zeus “The author of the Cypria says that Thetis, to please Hera, avoided union with Zeus, at which he was enraged and swore that she should be the wife of a mortal.”
The Aethiopis
- child: Achilles “The Achaeans then bury Antilochus and lay out the body of Achilles, while Thetis, arriving with the Muses and her sisters, bewails her son, whom she afterwards catches away from the pyre and transports to the White Island.”
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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.