Thetis in a sentence

As an infant, Archilles was plunged in the River Styx by his mother Thetis (also see 17 Thetis), thus rendering his body invulnerable excepting the heel by which he was held.

Illegal harvests were also seized in Nanaimo, and on Thetis and Ruxton islands.

Thetis, the merfolk doctor.

A number of sources credit Thetis with attempting to make Achilles immortal when he was an infant.

At this same time, burning with rage over Agamemnon's theft, Achilles prays to Thetis to convince Zeus to help the Trojans gain ground in the war, so that he may regain his honor.

Chiron 's wedding-gift to Peleus when he married the nymph Thetis in classical Greek mythology, was an ashen spear as the nature of ashwood with its straight grain made it an ideal choice of wood for a spear.

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He asked his mother, Thetis, to intercede with Zeus, who agreed to give the Trojans success in the absence of Achilles, the best warrior of the Achaeans.

He refuses, however, citing his mother's words and his promise to her to wait for her return. citation Thetis, meanwhile, speaks with Hephaestus and begs him to make Achilles armor, which he does.

He was also shown in scenes depicting the flight of the Nereides as Peleus wrestled their sister Thetis.

His mother Thetis comes to comfort the distraught Achilles.

However, after nine days, the gods call Thetis to Olympus and tell her that she must go to Achilles and pass him a message, that the gods are angry that Hector's body has not been returned.

In an early and less popular version of the story, Thetis anointed the boy in ambrosia and put him on top of a fire to burn away the mortal parts of his body.

Judgment of Paris main In one myth, all the gods and goddesses as well as various mortals were invited to the marriage of Peleus and Thetis (the eventual parents of Achilles ).

Laura Slatkin explores the apparent contradiction, in that the immediate presentation of Thetis in the Iliad is as a helpless minor goddess overcome by grief and lamenting to her Nereid sisters, and links the goddess's present and past through her grief.

Not wishing to be overthrown, Zeus marries Thetis off to the mortal Peleus; the product of that union is Achilles, Greek hero of the Trojan War.

Only one written record, a fragment, exists attesting to her worship and an early Alcman hymn exists that identifies Thetis as the creator of the universe.

Similarly, Thetis anoints the corpse of Patroclus in order to preserve it.

Some myths relate that because she had been interrupted by Peleus, Thetis had not made her son physically invulnerable.

The Lacedaemonians were at war with the Messenians, who had revolted, and their king Anaxander, having invaded Messenia, took as prisoners certain women, and among them Cleo, priestess of Thetis.