Achilles was the son of the nymph Thetis and Peleus, the king of the Myrmidons.

Known as the ' bulwark of the Mycenaeans ', he was trained by the centaur Chiron ( who had trained his father, Telamon, and Achilles ' father Peleus ), at the same time as Achilles.

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

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.

Although German U-boat crews were under War Order No. 154 not to rescue survivors, which was also the policy of the Allies, out of several thousand sinkings of merchant ships in World War II, there is only one documented case of a U-boat crew's deliberately attacking the ship's survivors: that of the U-852, whose crew attacked survivors of the Greek ship Peleus.

Pseudo-Apollodorus ' Bibliotheke asserts that Thetis was courted by both Zeus and Poseidon, but she was married off to the mortal Peleus because of their fears about the prophecy by Themis ( or Prometheus, or Calchas, according to others ) that her son would become greater than his father.

In Greek mythology, Peleus (;, Pēleus ) was a hero whose myth was already known to the hearers of Homer in the late 8th century BC.

In Phthia, Peleus was purified by Eurytion and married Antigone, Eurytion's daughter, by whom he had a daughter, Polydora.

Peleus was purified of the murder of Eurytion in Iolcus by Acastus.

Bitter, she sent a messenger to Antigone to tell her that Peleus was to marry Acastus ' daughter.

He was able to win her with the aid of Proteus, who told Peleus how to overcome Thetis ' ability to change her form.

She was interrupted by Peleus and she abandoned both father and son in a rage, leaving his heel vulnerable.

Though the tomb of Aeacus remained in a shrine enclosure in the most conspicuous part of the port city, a quadrangular enclosure of white marble sculpted with bas-reliefs, in the form in which Pausanias saw it, with the tumulus of Phocus nearby, there was no temenos of Peleus at Aegina.

In antiquity, according to a fragment of Callimachus ' lost Aitia, there was a tomb of Peleus in Ikos ( modern Alonissos ), an island of the northern Sporades ; there Peleus was venerated as " king of the Myrmidons " and the " return of the hero " was celebrated annually.

An etiological myth of their origins, expanding upon their etymology — the name in Classical Greek was interpreted as " ant-people ", from μυρμηδών ( murmedon ) " ant's nest " and that from μύρμηξ ( murmex ) " ant " — was first mentioned by Ovid, in Metamorphoses: in Ovid's telling, King Aeacus of Aegina, father of Peleus, pleaded with Zeus to populate his country after a terrible plague.

By Endeïs Aeacus had two sons, Telamon and Peleus ( father of Achilles ), and by Psamathe a son, Phocus, whom he preferred to the two others, both of whom contrived to kill Phocus during a contest, and then fled from their native island.

The first line of Homer ’ s Iliad —“ Sing, goddess, the wrath of Peleus ’ son Achilles ”— provides an example:

* lines 14. 210-255 – The greedy son will surpass his father as much as Achilles did Peleus.

There lived Peleus, the hero beloved by the gods, and his son es.

She is consequently married off to the mortal Peleus, and bears him a son greater than the father — Achilles, Greek hero of the Trojan War.

The marriage of Peleus and Thetis produced a son, Achilles.

Two versions of Peleus ' fate account for this ; in Euripides ' Troades, Acastus, son of Pelias, has exiled him from Phthia ; and subsequently he dies in exile ; in another, he is reunited with Thetis and made immortal.

In Greek mythology, Telamon ( in Ancient Greek, Τελαμών ), son of the king Aeacus of Aegina, and Endeis and brother of Peleus, accompanied Jason as one of his Argonauts, and was present at the hunt for the Calydonian Boar.

Peleus later gave the horses to his son Achilles who took them to draw his chariot during the Trojan War.

# Peleus killed him with a stone during a contest in pentathlon to please Endeis, as Phocus was her husband's son by a different woman.

Diomedes points out the folly of offering these gifts, " Most noble son of Atreus, king of men, Agamemnon, you ought not to have sued the son of Peleus nor offered him gifts.

There Patroclus apparently first met Peleus ' son Achilles.

:(" Sing, o goddess, the rage || of Achilles, the son of Peleus.

* Brad Pitt as Achilles He is the son of Peleus and Thetis.

The Greek term Antonomasia, in rhetoric, means substituting any epithet or phrase for a proper name, as Pelides, signifying the " son of Peleus ", to identify Achilles ; an opposite substitution of a proper name for some generic term is also sometimes called antonomasia, as a Cicero for an orator.

The Greek mentality was " to always be pre-eminent "; Homer records this charge of King Peleus to his son Achilles.

* " Pelides " or " the son of Peleus " for Achilles

Through him Aegina was the great-grandmother of Achilles, who was son of Peleus, son of Aeacus.

** son of Peleus ( Πηληϊάδης Pēlēïádēs )

In Greek mythology, Endeïs was the wife of Aeacus and mother of Telamon and Peleus.

Aeacus favored Phocus over Peleus and Telamon, his two sons with Endeïs.

The brothers hid the corpse in a thicket, but Aeacus discovered the body and punished Peleus and Telamon by exiling them from Aegina.

Aeacus was father of Peleus, Telamon and Phocus.

Phoenix fled to Peleus, who in his turn took him to Chiron ; the latter restored Phoenix's sight, whereupon Peleus made Phoenix king of the Dolopes.

Telamon was sent to Salamis, where he became king after Cychreus, the reigning king, died without an heir, while Peleus went to Phthia, where he was purified by the Phthian King Eurythion.

In Greek mythology, Mount Pelion ( which took its name from the mythical king Peleus, father of Achilles ) was the homeland of Chiron the Centaur, tutor of many ancient Greek heroes, such as Jason, Achilles, Theseus and Heracles.

: Sing, goddess, the wrath of Achilles Peleus ' son, the ruinous wrath that brought on the Achaians woes innumerable, and hurled down into Hades many strong souls of heroes, and gave their bodies to be a prey to dogs and all winged fowls ; and so the counsel of Zeus wrought out its accomplishment from the day when first strife parted Atreides king of men and noble Achilles.