Thetis - Mythology.
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Thetis - Mythology. Greek One of the nereids, sea nymph daughters of Nereus; wife of Peleus; mother of Achilles. Both Zeus and Poseidon had pursued Thetis, but on being told by the seeress Themis that a son borne by Thetis would overthrow the Olympian gods, Zeus persuaded Thetis to marry Peleus. When her son, Achilles, 140 Thessaly was born, Thetis wanted to make him invulnerable. She dipped the baby into the river Styx, holding him by one heel. Since that heel did not touch the magical water, it remained vulnerable. It was this heel that later caused Achilles' death in the Trojan War.
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