Summary: Thetis is an ancient Greek Nereid.

• names
• basic information
• relations
• myths
• priests/priestesses

names:

    Greek name: Thetis

    (NOTE: In addition to native variations by locality or over time, there are often several possible transliterations into the Roman alphabet used for English.)

basic information:

    Thetis: One of the Greek Nereids.

Thetis’s relations:

    One of 50 daughters of Nereus and Oceanus, the Nereids, who were nymphs who lived in the Mediterranean Sea.

    Wife of Peleus.

    Mother of Achilles.

myths and beliefs:

    Was romantically involved with Zeus, but then Zeus was told that Thetis’ son would become more powerful than his father, so Zeus married her off to Peleus, by whom she had Achilles.

    Thetis’ attempted to make Her son Achilles immortal by dipping him in the river Styx. Because She held her son by his heel, that part remained vulnerable to death. Thetis’ told Achilles he hadthe choice between a long and uneventful life or a short and glorious life. He choose the short and glorious life. Achilles plays an important part in the Trojan War as related by Homer’s Iliad and in the last days of the siege of Troy is killed by an arrow wound in his heel.

other:

religious title certificate

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external links:

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