CROWELL'S HANDBOOK OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY1970 |
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... Peleus , king of Phthia , and Thetis . A. Peleus ' marriage to a sea - goddess , after a wedding that had been ar- ranged and attended by the gods , was a happy one until the birth of their first child , Ligyron . Thetis , wishing to ...
... Peleus , king of Phthia , and Thetis . A. Peleus ' marriage to a sea - goddess , after a wedding that had been ar- ranged and attended by the gods , was a happy one until the birth of their first child , Ligyron . Thetis , wishing to ...
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EDWARD TRIPP. PELEUS boiling water to see whether they had inherited their father's mortality . They had . After losing several children this way , Peleus took a stand when Achilles was born and refused to agree to further experiments ...
EDWARD TRIPP. PELEUS boiling water to see whether they had inherited their father's mortality . They had . After losing several children this way , Peleus took a stand when Achilles was born and refused to agree to further experiments ...
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... Peleus , who was considered the worthiest man of his time . Some say , however , that he had to win her by force . On Cheiron's ad- vice , he captured her in her favorite grotto on the Magnesian coast . Like many other deities of the ...
... Peleus , who was considered the worthiest man of his time . Some say , however , that he had to win her by force . On Cheiron's ad- vice , he captured her in her favorite grotto on the Magnesian coast . Like many other deities of the ...
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