Greek mythology
Thetis
The sea-nymph mother who could not make her son immortal
- Mythology
- Greek mythology
- Parents
- Nereus
- Children
- Achilles
- Siblings
- Amphitrite
- Group
- Mortal · Nereids · Nymphs
- Appears in
- Ajax: The Arms of Achilles · Judgment of Paris
- Objects
- Shield of Achilles
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Thetis is a Nereid of the sea, so desired that even Zeus withdraws when he learns her son will surpass his father. Wed against her will to the mortal Peleus, she bears Achilles and tries to burn away his mortality or dip him in the Styx. Knowing he is fated to die at Troy, she wins from Hephaestus new divine armor for her doomed son.
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Ajax: The Arms of Achilles
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- Who is Thetis?
- Thetis is a Nereid of the sea, so desired that even Zeus withdraws when he learns her son will surpass his father. Wed against her will to the mortal Peleus, she bears Achilles and tries to burn away his mortality or dip him in the Styx.
- Which mythology does Thetis belong to?
- Thetis belongs to Greek mythology.
- Which stories does Thetis appear in?
- Thetis appears in Ajax: The Arms of Achilles, Judgment of Paris, told as chaptered audio dramas in MythologyNow.
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