Pelias

Family: Thessalian · Role: king · First appears: Fable 63

Life events

Medea deceives Pelias’s daughters into believing she can restore their father’s youth.(Fable63)
- With: Medea
- “And while among the greatest of her merits, she relates that the infirmities of Æson have been removed, and is dwelling upon that part {of the story}, a hope is suggested to the damsels, the daughters of Pelias, that by the like art their parent may become young again; and this they request {of her}”
Medea prepares a deceptive potion and puts Pelias and his guards into enchanted sleep.(Fable63)
- With: Medea
- “And now sleep like to death, their bodies being relaxed, had seized the king, and the guards together with their king, which her charms and the influence of her enchanting tongue had caused.”
Medea manipulates Pelias’s daughters into stabbing and killing their father.(Fable63)
- With: Medea
- “As he is about to say more, the Colchian severs his throat, together with his words, and plunges him, {thus} mangled, in the boiling cauldron.”
Medea kills Pelias.(Fable64)
- With: Medea
- “Medea, after having killed Pelias, goes through several countries to Corinth”

siblings with Æson “He was the brother of Æson, and had dethroned him, and usurped his kingdom.”
enemies with Medea “she avenges the injuries which he had done to the family of Jason”
enemies with Jason “she avenges the injuries which he had done to the family of Jason, by making him the victim of the credulity of his own daughters”

with Medea (Medea kills Pelias.) “Medea, after having killed Pelias, goes through several countries to Corinth”

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