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PELEUS , in See also:Greek See also:legend, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the See also:Myrmidones of Phthia in See also:Thessaly, son of See also:Aeacus, king of See also:Aegina, and See also:brother (or II
intimate friend) of Telamon. The two See also:brothers, jealous of the athletic prowess of their step-brother Phocus, slew him; but the See also:crime was discovered, and Peleus and Telamon were banished. Peleus took See also:refuge in Phthia with his See also:uncle Eurytion, who purified him from the See also:guilt of See also:murder, and gave him his daughter See also:Antigone to wife, and a third of the See also:kingdom as her See also:dowry. Having accidentally killed his See also:father-in-See also:law at the Calydonian See also:boar-See also:hunt, Peleus was again obliged to flee, this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to Iolcus, where he was purified by See also:Acastus. The most famous event in the See also:life of Peleus was his See also:marriage with the See also:sea-goddess See also:Thetis, by whom he became the father of See also:Achilles. The See also:story ran that both See also:Zeus and See also:Poseidon had sought her See also:hand, but, See also:Themis (or See also:Prometheus or See also:Proteus) having warned the former that a son of Thetis by Zeus would prove mightier than his father, the gods decided to marry her to Peleus. Thetis, to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape a distasteful See also:union, changed herself into various forms, but at last Peleus, by the instructions of See also:Chiron, seized and held her fast till she resumed her See also:original shape, and was unable to offer further resistance. The See also:wedding (described in the See also:fine See also:Epithalamium of See also:Catullus) took See also:place in Chiron's See also:cave on Mt See also:Pelion. Peleus survived both his son Achilles and his See also:grandson See also:Neoptolemus, and was carried away by Thetis to dwell for ever among the Nereids.
See See also:Apollodorus Hi. 12, 13; See also:Ovid, Metam. xi ; See also:Pindar, 'Isthmia, viii. 7o, Nemea, iv. See also:lot ; Catullus, lxiv. ; schol. Apoll. Rhod. iv. 816 ; See also:Euripides, See also:Andromache, 1242-1260.
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