god
Thetis
Sea-goddess (a Nereid), mother of Achilles; had she 'refused her burden,' Achilles — and so the fall of Troy — would never have been.
Reading notes
- The Loves §2.14 Thetis
Sea-goddess mother of Achilles; had she shirked her burden, Troy would never have fallen.
- The Heroides §3 your watery mother
Thetis, the sea-goddess mother of Achilles; her 'waves' stand for her marine nature.
- The Heroides §20 Thetis
The sea-goddess, proverbial for beautiful feet; Cydippe's, Acontius says, surpass even hers.
- Metamorphoses §11.330 said to Thetis
A sea-goddess, daughter of Nereus; fated to bear a son greater than his father, she is married off to the mortal Peleus and becomes the mother of Achilles.
- Metamorphoses §13.392 Nereid mother
Thetis, the sea-nymph mother of Achilles, who hid him to keep him from the war.