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A-Z: General definitions: Peleus
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King of Phthia in Thessaly, the husband of Thetis and father of Achilles.
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A sea-nymph, the daughter of Nereus, wife of Peleus and mother of Achilles.
Son of Peleus and Thetis; he was the mainstay of the Greeks at Troy but in the tenth year of the war he was killed by Paris' arrow; the wrath of Achilles, when he withdrew from the fighting around Troy because of a quarrel with Agamemnon, is the subj
A sea-nymph, the daughter of Nereus, wife of Peleus and mother of Achilles.
Son of Peleus and Thetis; he was the mainstay of the Greeks at Troy but in the tenth year of the war he was killed by Paris' arrow; the wrath of Achilles, when he withdrew from the fighting around Troy because of a quarrel with Agamemnon, is the subj
