silver-footed Thetis
Sea nymph and mother of Achilles. A prophecy said her son would be greater than his father, so the gods married her to a mortal.
Strength 6/10 · Wisdom 8/10 · Courage 7/10 · Divinity 10/10 · Fame 8/10
The story
A sea nymph so beautiful that Zeus and Poseidon both wanted her, until a prophecy said her son would be greater than his father. So she was married to a mortal, Peleus. At their wedding the goddess of discord threw in the golden apple that started the whole war.
How it ends
She knew her son would die young. At his funeral she rose from the sea with her nymphs to mourn him.
Family
- Parents: Nereus, Doris
- Partners: Peleus
- Children: Achilles
- Siblings: Amphitrite
Appears in
Read about them in the Library
- Iliad 1: The quarrel
- Iliad 18: The shield of Achilles
- Iliad 19: Achilles and Agamemnon reconciled
- Iliad 24: Priam and Achilles
- Theogony and Works and Days 6: The wives and children of Zeus
- Library of Apollodorus 14: Peleus and Achilles
- Argonautica 4: The Fleece and the long way home
- Metamorphoses 11: Midas, and Ceyx and Alcyone
Ancient sources
- Homer, Iliad
- Homer, Odyssey
Thetis is a playable card in MythoTroy, the Trojan War card game.