Peleus Flashcards
Who was Peleus a son of?
Aeacus and Endeis
What half brother of Peleus and Telamon…
Phocus
Who was Peleus given as a first wife?
Antigone
Who sent a wolf to destroy Peleus’s flocks?
Psamathe (Phocus’ sea-nymph
mother)
Who got Psamathe to turn the wolf that was sent to destroy Peleus’s flocks to stone?
Thetis
What goddess interceded for Peleus and forced Psamathe to turn the wolf to stone?
Thetis
Who accidentally killed Eurytion the king of Phthia?
Peleus
What wife of Acastus had accused Peleus of rape, causing Acastus to strand him atop Mount Pelion?
Astydameia
Who saved himself the trouble of carrying his kills back to camp by cutting out their tongues and keeping them in his pouch?
Peleus
What man, who produced a pouch full of tongues to prove that he had won a hunting contest against
Acastus…
Peleus
Who took Peleus’s sword and hid it under a heap of cow dung?
Acastus
Who saved Peleus from the centaurs?
Cheiron
What hero did Astydameia try to seduce when he visited to be purified by her husband Acastus?
Peleus
Who killed Astydameia, cut her body in half and marched his army between the pieces?
Peleus
Becoming successively fire, water, a lioness, and a tree…
Thetis
