Peleus

Family: Greek · Role: mortal · First appears: The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 41–60

Peleus, son of Aeacus and brother of Menoethius, came to Phthia from Iolcus with great possessions. At Pelion, Acastus hid a knife to lure him into danger from the Centaurs. Peleus later married Thetis at Phthia, a marriage celebrated at a feast where Strife arrived.

Thetis threw the children she had by Peleus into a cauldron to test whether they were mortal, and many perished. Peleus stopped her from throwing Achilles into it. He was also the father of Polydora.

Relationship record

Life events

• Acastus hid a knife so Peleus might be killed by the Centaurs.(The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 41–60 · 📍 Pelion)
  • With: Acastus
  • “to keep back himself, but to hide beyond guessing the beautiful knife which the very famous Lame One had made for him, that in seeking it alone over steep Pelion, he (Peleus) might be slain forthwith by the mountain-bred Centaurs.”
• Peleus’s marriage to Thetis was accomplished.(The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 41–60 · 📍 Phthia)
  • With: Thetis
  • “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)
  • With: Thetis Achilles
  • “And that after many had perished Peleus was annoyed, and prevented her from throwing Achilles into the cauldron.”
• Many of Thetis and Peleus’s children perished in the cauldron.(Aegimius)
  • With: Thetis
  • “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 and Thetis marry.(The Cypria · Part 1)
  • With: Thetis
  • “Strife arrives while the gods are feasting at the marriage of Peleus”

The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 41–60

• parent: Aeacus “Peleus the son of Aeacus, dear to the deathless gods, came to Phthia the mother of flocks, bringing great possessions from spacious Iolcus.”
• married with thedaughterofnereusfragment58 “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.”
• child: Peleus’ daughter Polydora “...whereas Hesiod and the rest call her (Peleus’ daughter) Polydora.”
• married with Thetis “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.”

The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 61–80

• siblings with Menoethius “Menoethius the father of Patroclus, was a brother of Peleus”

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.”

The Cypria · Part 1

• married with Thetis “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.”

The Little Iliad

• child: Achilles “The storm carried Achilles the son of Peleus to Scyros, and he came into an uneasy harbour there in that same night.”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.