Thetis

A Nereid. Mother of the hero Achilles.

Genealogy

Doris

Nereus

Actaea, Agave, Amatheia, Amphinome, Amphithoe, Amphitrite, Apseudes, Autonoe, Calypso, Ceto, Cranto, Cymo, Cymothoe, Dero, Dexamene, Dione, Doris, Doto, Dynamene, Eione, Erato, Eucrante, Eudore, Eulimene, Eumolpe, Eunice, Evagore, Galatea, Glauce, Glauconome, Halimede, Halie, Hipponoe, Hippothoe, Iaira, Ianassa, Ianira, Io, Kallieneira, Kallienassa, Klymene, Kymodoke, Limnoria, Lysianassa, Maira, Melite, Nausithoe, Nemertes, Neomeris, Nesaea, Oreithuia, Pherusa, Plexaure, Polynome, Pontomedusa, Proto, Psamathe, Sao, Spio, Thoe

Peleus

Achilles

Group

Nereids

Places
  1. Lemnos
  2. Mount Olympus
  3. Myconos
  4. Nowhere
  5. Mount Pelion
  6. Scyros
  7. Sea
  8. Tenedos
  9. Troy
  10. Unknown
  11. Wandering Rocks
Events
  1. The Nereids are born
  2. Hephaestus lands from his fall from Olympus and hurts his legs
  3. The Argonauts encounter the Wandering Rocks
  4. Dionysus takes refuge in the Sea with Thetis
  5. Thetis warns Achilles not to kill Tenes
  6. Thetis persuades Neoptolemus to wait before sailing home from Troy
  7. Thetis buries Ajax’ body
  8. Zeus and Poseidon compete for Thetis’s hand in marriage
  9. There is a prediction made that the son of Thetis will be mightier than his father
  10. Thetis refuses to have sex with Zeus
  11. Hera raises Thetis
  12. Peleus abducts Thetis
  13. Peleus marries Thetis
  14. Achilles is born
  15. Thetis hides the baby Achilles from Peleus
  16. Peleus discovers Thetis putting baby Achilles in a fire
  17. Thetis leaves Peleus and goes to live with the Nereids
  18. Thetis disguises Achilles in female clothing and sends him to Lycomedes’ household
  19. Themis prophesies that Thetis’s son will be mightier than his father
  20. Achilles prays to his mother, Thetis
  21. Achilles tells Thetis the story of how Agamemnon has taken Briseis
  22. Thetis comes out of the waves to talk to her son, Achilles
  23. Achilles asks Thetis to implore Zeus to favour the Trojans
  24. Thetis says she will bid Zeus to help
  25. Thetis tells Achilles to hold off fighting until she can persuade Zeus for his help
  26. Thetis bids Zeus to give temporary favor to the Trojans in order to help Achilles
  27. Zeus tells Thetis he will consider her plea to help Achilles
  28. Thetis warns Achilles not to be the first to land at Troy or he would be the first to die
  29. Thetis mourns Achilles’ fate to the Nereids
  30. Thetis and the Nereids come up out of the sea to see Achilles
  31. Thetis and Achilles discuss his grief and certain impending death by Hector’s hand
  32. Thetis orders the Nereids to tell Nereus of Achilles’ fate
  33. Thetis tells Achilles not to rejoin the Achaeans until she seeks out Hephaestus to craft Achilles a suit of armor
  34. Thetis visits the house of Hephaestus, and begs him to make armour for Achilles
  35. Thetis takes the armor Hephaestus crafted and leaves Olympus
  36. Thetis brings Achilles the armour Hephaestus made for him
  37. Thetis protects Patroclus’ body from decay
  38. Thetis sends Achilles to reconcile with Agamemnon
  39. Zeus sends for Thetis
  40. Zeus sends Thetis to tell Achilles to release Hector’s body
  41. Thetis tells Achilles to release Hector’s body to Priam
  42. Thetis and Peleus send Epeigeus to join the Myrmidons
Citations
  1. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 2.7
  2. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 3.5
  3. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 9.25
  4. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 5.1
  5. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 13.5
  6. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 13.6
  7. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 13.8
  8. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 3.14
  9. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 3.26
  10. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 3.29
  11. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 6.5
  12. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 6.6
  13. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 6.12
  14. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 1, Section 280
  15. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 1, Section 350
  16. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 1, Section 355
  17. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 1, Section 400
  18. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 1, Section 410
  19. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 1, Section 495
  20. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 1, Section 510
  21. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 1, Section 530
  22. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 1, Section 535
  23. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 1, Section 555
  24. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 4, Section 481
  25. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 6, Section 72
  26. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 6, Section 119
  27. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 8, Section 357
  28. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 9, Section 410
  29. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 10, Section 400
  30. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 11, Section 780
  31. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 13, Section 345
  32. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 15, Section 47
  33. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 15, Section 592
  34. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 16, Section 27
  35. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 16, Section 198
  36. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 16, Section 218
  37. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 16, Section 569
  38. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 16, Section 843
  39. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 18, Section 1
  40. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 18, Section 28
  41. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 18, Section 94
  42. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 18, Section 127
  43. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 18, Section 145
  44. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 18, Section 148
  45. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 18, Section 310
  46. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 18, Section 368
  47. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 18, Section 388
  48. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 18, Section 410
  49. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 18, Section 428
  50. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 18, Section 614
  51. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 19, Section 1
  52. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 19, Section 28
  53. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 20, Section 103
  54. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 20, Section 199
  55. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 21, Section 104
  56. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 21, Section 272
  57. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 23, Section 12
  58. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 24, Section 55
  59. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 24, Section 64
  60. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 24, Section 77
  61. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 24, Section 93
  62. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 24, Section 104
  63. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 24, Section 120
  64. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 24, Section 513
  65. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 29.9
  66. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 14.4
  67. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 14.5
  68. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 21.9
  69. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 22.2
  70. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 5, Section 18.5
  71. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 5, Section 19.8
  72. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 5, Section 22.2
  73. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 41.5
  74. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 41.6
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