Thetis
Family: mythological · Role: mother of Phocus · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 29
In Book 2, Chapter 29, Thetis is identified as Phocus’s mother and Endeis’s sister. In Book 3, Chapter 21, Nereus is identified by a name Homer gave him “in the speech of Thetis.” A chapter later, Menelaus places statues of Thetis and Praxidice near the temple of Aphrodite Migonitis, eight years after the capture of Ilium.
In Book 5, Chapter 18, Peleus lays hold of Thetis as a serpent is about to dart from her hand at him. In Chapter 19, Thetis receives armor from Hephæstus in a scene associated with Patroclus’s death. Elsewhere, the material names Cleo as her priestess, depicts her among statues with Zeus and Aurora, and says Eurynome joined her in receiving Hephæstus.
Relationship record
Life events
- The old man of the sea is identified as Nereus, a name associated with Homer and Thetis.(Book 3 · Chapter 21 · 📍 Gythium)
- Menelaus placed statues of Thetis and Praxidice near the temple.(Book 3 · Chapter 22 · 📍 temple of Aphrodite Migonitis)
- Peleus seizes Thetis as a serpent threatens to strike him.(Book 5 · Chapter 18)
- With: Peleus
- “Peleus is laying hold of her, and from Thetis’ hand a serpent is about to dart at Peleus.”
- Thetis receives armor from Hephæstus in connection with Patroclus's death.(Book 5 · Chapter 19)
Book 2 · Chapter 29
- child: Phocus (son of Æacus) “they were the sons of Endeis the daughter of Sciron, and Phocus was the son of her sister Thetis”
- siblings with Endeis “they were the sons of Endeis the daughter of Sciron, and Phocus was the son of her sister Thetis”
Book 3 · Chapter 14
- with Cleo (Cleo was Thetis's priestess.) “Cleo the priestess of Thetis”
Book 3 · Chapter 21
- with Homer (Homer is presented as the author of a speech attributed to Thetis.) “this name Homer gave him in the Iliad in the speech of Thetis”
Book 3 · Chapter 22
- with Menelaus (Menelaus placed a statue of Thetis near the temple.) “And Menelaus, returning home safe 8 years after the capture of Ilium, placed near the temple of Aphrodite Migonitis statues of Thetis and Praxidice.”
Book 5 · Chapter 18
- with Peleus (Peleus lays hold of Thetis.) “There too is the maiden Thetis, and Peleus is laying hold of her, and from Thetis’ hand a serpent is about to dart at Peleus.”
- with Peleus (A serpent is about to dart at Peleus from Thetis' hand.) “There too is the maiden Thetis, and Peleus is laying hold of her, and from Thetis’ hand a serpent is about to dart at Peleus.”
Book 5 · Chapter 19
- with Hephæstus (giving her arms) “Thetis who is receiving arms from Hephæstus”
- with Hephæstus (Hephæstus gives arms to Thetis.) “Thetis who is receiving arms from Hephæstus”
Book 5 · Chapter 22
- with Zeus (Thetis supplicates Zeus.) “And near what is called the Hippodamium there is a semicircular basement of stone, and statues on it of Zeus and Thetis and Aurora supplicating Zeus for their children.”
Book 8 · Chapter 41
- with Eurynome (Eurynome joined Thetis in receiving Hephæstus.) “Eurynome the Phigalian people believe to be a title of Artemis, but their Antiquarians say that Eurynome was the daughter of Oceanus, and is mentioned by Homer in the Iliad as having joined Thetis in receiving Hephæstus.”
- with Hephæstus (Thetis received Hephæstus together with Eurynome.) “Eurynome was the daughter of Oceanus, and is mentioned by Homer in the Iliad as having joined Thetis in receiving Hephæstus.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.