Thetis

Sea goddess in Greek poetry and mother of AchillesAchillesImportant hero of the Iliad, whose anger and participation shape the poem’s warfare.Glossary · Click to read the explanation, one of the IliadIliadGreek epic attributed to Homer, narrating a phase of the Trojan War.Glossary · Click to read the explanation’s heroes. ^[1]

Her discussion with ZeusZeusZeus is the sky god and leading deity in many Greek traditions. In the Iliad he presides over divine gatherings while others can still speak and object.Glossary · Click to read the explanation in book 1 concerns honouring Achilles. HeraHeraGreek goddess and Zeus’s wife, appearing in council and family-disagreement scenes in the Iliad.Glossary · Click to read the explanation questions that agreement, making the private discussion a background to the dispute before the divine company. ^[1]