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Pictures of Thetis
In the following pictures of Thetis you can see her abridged history.
We know that Peleus had a hard time trying to get ahold of Thetis.
This proved to be very difficult, because the goddess, a marine divinity, was a shape-shifter. She turned into water, a flame, a lioness and a serpent.
In the end she had to give up, so here is the wedding of Thetis and Peleus:
When her son, Achilles, was a little baby, she dipped him into water from the Styx, in order to make him invulnerable. But she hold him by the heel, which remained vulnerable.
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| Thetis Dipping the Infant... |
| Antonio Balestra |
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When Achilles was hiding among the girls at the court of Lycomedes, Odysseus was the one who discovered him. Thetis, knowing that Achilles won't be able to escape his destiny, asked Hephaistos to make special weapons for him...
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| Thetis Receives Arms and Amour for Ac... |
| Sir Van Dyck |
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... and gave them to Achilles.
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| Thetis Giving Achilles Hi... |
| Giulio Romano |
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During the war of Troy, when Achilles was offended by the way in which he had been treated, he asked his nmother, Thetis, to go and plead with Zeus, in order to make the Trojans push back the Greeks. This way, the Greek army would see that, without Achilles, they can't achieve anything.
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| Jupiter and Thetis, 1811 |
| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres |
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But in the end Achilles died in battle, and Thetis and her nereids mourned him.
PS: the pictures of Thetis without any caption are taken from Wikipedia and are in the public domain. They represent Greek vases from the Louvre museum.
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