THETIS
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V26,
Page 844
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
THETIS
, in See also:Greek See also:mythology, daughter of See also:Nereus, wife of See also:Peleus and See also:mother of See also:Achilles
.
The See also:chief of the fifty Nereids, she dwelt in the depths of the See also:sea with her See also:father and sisters
.
When See also:Dionysus leaped into the sea to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape from the pursuit of See also:Lycurgus, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the Thracian Edones, and See also:Hephaestus was flung out of See also:heaven by See also:Zeus, both were kindly received by Thetis
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Again, when See also:Hera, See also:Athena and See also:Poseidon threatened to bind Zeus in chains, she sent the See also:giant Aegaeon, who delivered him out of their hands
.
She was married against her will to Peleus (q.v.; see also ACHILLES)
.
Thetis is used by Latin poets simply for the sea
.
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