PELEUS

pēˈlēəs, –ləs, in Greek mythology, son of Aeacus and the father of Achilles by Thetis. He and his brother Telamon killed their half-brother Phocus and were exiled from Aegina. After taking part in the Calydonian hunt, Peleus went to Iolcus, where he killed King Acastus and Acastus' wife because they had once tried to murder him.

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books on: Peleus  - 886 results

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Ariadne's Thread: A Guide to International Tales Found in Classical Literature
Book by William Hansen; Cornell University Press, 2002
Subjects: Classical Literature--History And Criticism, Folk Literature--Classical Influences, Folk Literature--Classification, Folk Literature--History And Criticism, Tales--Classification
...believing his wifes false accusations against Peleus, angrily decided to do away with the...presumably as a pretext for escorting Peleus into the countryside, where he planned...to kill the man he had purified, sent Peleus out to Mt. Pelion in order that he might...
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Writing for Visual Media
Book by Anthony Friedmann; Elsevier/Focal, 2006
Subjects: Mass Media--Authorship, Visual Communication
...This is set in the first Legend, Telamon Peleus, during the part of the voyage of the...were aboard. The player is Telamon; Peleus is their partner. The Argo has set ashore...briefly talks to Heracles, whom both he and Peleus have befriended. He tells them that the...
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Three Aeginetan Odes of Pindar: A Commentary on Nemean V, Nemean III and Pythian VIII
Book by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer; Brill, 1999
Subjects: Aegina Island (Greece)--In Literature, Games In Literature, Laudatory Poetry, Greek--History And Criticism, Mythology, Greek, In Literature, Odes--History And Criticism, Pindar--Criticism And Interpretation
...specified as over the sea ?xai? 22-37(a) Second episode. Wedding of Peleus and Thetis. Peleus and Hippolyta 22-25(a) The Muses sang on the wedding of Peleus and Thetis ?8e xai 22-23(a) Just as willingly the Muses sang for the...
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Pindar's Songs for Young Athletes of Aigina
Book by Anne Pippin Burnett; Oxford University Press, 2005
Subjects: Athletes In Literature, Pindar--Criticism And Interpretation, Songs, Greek--History And Criticism
pursuit made Peleus a doublet of Zeus in the rape of Aigina...body to leap like demon creatures upon Peleus back, or snap at one of his legs.32...from the top of her head.33 And the Peleus of these later scenes, by contrast to...
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Gods and Heroes of the Greeks: The Library of Apollodorus
Book by Michael Simpson, Leonard Baskin, Apollodorus; University of Massachusetts Press, 1976
Subjects: Mythology, Greek
...Phocus was superior to his brothers, Peleus and Telamon, in athletic contests, they...when he was exercising. With the help of Peleus he carried off the body and hid it in...a son, Teucer see 2. 6. 4 . 7 13. Peleus fled to Phthia to the house of Eurytion...
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Intertextual Labyrinths: Ariadne's Lament in Montaigne's "Sur Des Vers De Virgile" [*
Journal article by Marc-Andre Wiesmann; Vol. 53, 2000
Subjects: Authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Catullus--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Literary agents--Analysis, Literature--Analysis, Montaigne, Michel de--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Catulluss epithalamium on the marriage of Peleus and Thetis from which are derived the...Achilles, the mortal Argonautic hero Peleus and the goddess Thetis. 18 Catulluss...Ronsard who refers to it as "Les Nopces de Peleus" in the 1587 "Preface sur la Franciade...
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Reading the Lies of Poets: The Literal and the Allegorical in Machaut's Fonteinne Amoureuse
Journal article by Sylvia Huot; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 85, 2006
Subjects: Fonteinne amoureuse (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, French poets--Criticism and interpretation, French poets--Works, Guillaume de Machaut--Criticism and interpretation, Guillaume de Machaut--Works
...the detailed narrative of the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, complete with the antics...harmonious celebration of the marriage of Peleus and Thetis is shattered by the arrival...very brief evocation of the marriage of Peleus and Thetis--is an invitation to the...
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Jung and the Fairy Tale, or Nosce Te Ipsum
Journal article by Maria S. Kardaun; PSYART, 2010
...encountered in Greek myth. In one of the Trojan war legends King Peleus and sea goddess Thetis, Achilles parents-to-be, have invited...conflict the royal couples son Achilles will meet his end. Peleus and Thetis did all they could to prevent discord from entering...
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Centaurs Unnaturally Fabulous
Journal article by Carl Woodring; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 38, 2007
Subjects: Animals, Mythical--Portrayals, Greek mythology--Portrayals, Mythical animals--Portrayals
...perilous assignment to leadership of the Argonauts in pursuit of the Golden Fleece. Besides saving Peleus from the treachery of Acastus, Chiron taught Peleus how to make Thetis stop changing shapes and how to seize her in order to marry her and provide...
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Shelley and the Social Text of Virgil's Tenth Eclogue
Journal article by William Keach; Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 33, 1991
Subjects: Literature--History And Criticism, Philology
...ore; et tragicus plerumque dolet sermone pedestri Telephus et Peleus, cum pauper et exsul uterque proicit ampullas et sesquipedalia...storms in swelling tones; so, too, in Tragedy Telephus and Peleus often grieve in the language of prose, when, in poverty and...
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Solving the Roman Riddle
Magazine article; The Saturday Evening Post, Vol. 264, September 1992
Subjects: Art, Ceramics, Historic artifacts, Roman civilization, Skalsky, Randall L
...Adonis, Bacchus, Orpheus, Pluto, Paris, Peleus, Dionysus, Perseus, and Augustus, to name...a P. He settled on the mythological figure Peleus, from the poem version of the story of Peleus and Thetis by Catullus, which had been a kind...
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Ancient Greek Tales for Today
Magazine article by Irene Waters; Contemporary Review, Vol. 278, June 2001
Subjects: Gods, Greek--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Greece--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Greeks--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Theater--History
...its father, so Zeus married her off to Peleus King of Phthia. At the wedding feast...the magical waters of the River Styx. Peleus takes his son away into the mountains...believe Priam Wants war any more than I do. Peleus, though, shows a different perspective...
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Lambert, Finzi and the Anatomy of the Boyce Revival
Magazine article by Ian Bartlett; Musical Times, Vol. 144, Autumn 2003
Subjects: Boyce, William, Classical music, Composers, Finzi, Gerald, History, Lambert, Constant
...performances in London of Boyces early masque, Peleus and Thetis (c.1740), by Opera da Camera in 1970. Peleus was also given further performances by...Parley of Instruments, Goodman), and Peleus made its debut in 1997 (Opera Restord...
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The World of Compact Discs
Magazine article by Anthony Paterson; Contemporary Review, Vol. 271, September 1997
Subjects: Music--18th century, Sound recordings--Evaluation
...brought out Theatre Music by William Boyce (CDA 66935) in which we have the music for four separate works for the stage: Peleus and Thetis, Florizel and Perdita, Corydon and Miranda and the Dirge from David Garricks 1750 production of Shakespeares Romeo...
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Hendrick Goltzius and Mannerism
Magazine article by Arthur C. Danto; The Nation, Vol. 254, February 10, 1992
Subjects: Dutch painters--Criticism and interpretation, Goltzius, Hendrick--Criticism and interpretation, Mannerism (Art)--Criticism and interpretation, Painters, Dutch--Criticism and interpretation, Wtewael, Joachim--Criticism and interpretation
...at with a crossbow in the hands of an elaborately ribboned mercenary of the sixteenth century. Wtewaels opulent Marriage of Peleus and Thetis (at the Rhode Island School of Design) records the last time the gods sat down to table with humans, and it is...
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Life of Luxury
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), January 1, 2011
...Funnel Line built four P ships in 1949 - Peleus and her sister Pyrrus at Cammel Lairds...Tyneside. There is a 10ft long model of Peleus on display in the Merseyside Maritime Museums Life at Sea gallery. Peleus, designed for services between Liverpool...
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Who Abandoned the Letters Sailor Sent His Folks All That Time Ago?
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), January 26, 2008
...himself Jack - speaks of the loneliness of life on board the SS Peleus and his grief for his brother Willie. Dated August 12, 1917...Mr Davies was on board the SS Celtic Glen in Chile, the SS Peleus in South Africa and later on the SS Manchurian Prince, owned...
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Coming of Age in Ancient Troy
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 30, 2011
...War has all the ingredients to be included here. As a boy, Patroclus is exiled by his father to Phthia, the home of King Peleus, and is befriended by the kings son, Achilles. When Achilles is sent by his father to be educated by Chiron the Centaur...
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Go through the Doorway and Find the Real You; WORLD TRAVEL Two Week of Yoga - and More - in the Aegean. Sounds like Heaven? It Is
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 17, 2007
...in the Aegean. Sounds like Heaven? It Is. Byline: By CLIVE LEIGHTON Born of the sea-nymph Thetis by the mortal King Peleus, and hidden as a girl on Skiros until Odysseus discovers him, Achilles becomes the Greeks greatest warrior at Troy. But he...
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Real Beauty at the Laing
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), September 28, 2004
...times. The exhibition also has four oil studies which the artist considered of great importance and a painting called Feast Of Peleus, one of a planned sequence called The Story Of Troy. Burne-Jones became the main designer for William Morris amp; Co...
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encyclopedia articles on: Peleus  - 10 results

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Peleus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PELEUS pe le s, l s, in Greek mythology, son of Aeacus and the father of Achilles...Phocus and were exiled from Aegina. After taking part in the Calydonian hunt, Peleus went to Iolcus, where he killed King Acastus and Acastus wife because they...
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Acastus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...away. Later, his wife fell in love with Peleus , the father of Achilles, who did not...her. Acastus took revenge by leaving Peleus unprotected on Mt. Pelion. Rescued by the centaur Chiron, Peleus subsequently captured Iolcus and killed...
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Thetis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...than his father, the gods gave her in marriage to a mortal, Peleus. According to one legend, Thetis burned alive her first six sons and sent their immortal spirits to Olympus. Peleus, however, snatched the seventh, Achilles, from the fire...
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Catullus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the genial to the obscenely derisive; elegies; a few long poems, notably "Attis" and a nuptial poem honoring Thetis and Peleus; and various short pieces. His satire is vigorous and flexible, his light poems joyful and full-bodied. He was influenced...
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Eris , in Greek Religion
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ERIS , in Greek religion e ris, in Greek religion, goddess of strife. Angered at not being invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, she threw the apple of discord among the wedding guests (see Paris , in Greek mythology...
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