Editing Peleus (section)

== Biography ==
Peleus was the son of [[Aeacus]],<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.9.16&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Peleus 1.9.16]</ref> king of the island of [[Aegina]],<ref>The island lies in the [[Saronic Gulf]] opposite the coast of [[Epidaurus]]; it had once been called Oenone, Pausanias was informed.</ref> and [[Endeïs]], the [[oread]] of [[Pelion|Mount Pelion]] in [[Thessaly]].<ref>In poetry he and Telamon are sometimes the ''Endeides'', the "sons of Endeis"; see, for example, Pausanias 2.29.10.</ref> He married the sea-nymph [[Thetis]] with whom he fathered [[Achilles]].

[[Polymele]], a daughter of Peleus, was one of the possible mothers of [[Patroclus]] by [[Menoetius (mythology)|Menoetius]].<ref>[[Plutarch]], ''Aristides'' 20.6</ref>

Peleus and his brother [[Telamon]] were friends of [[Jason]] and both were counted as [[Argonauts]].<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.9.16&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Peleus 1.9.16]</ref> Though there were no further kings in Aegina, the kings of [[Epirus]] claimed descent from Peleus in the historic period.<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], 2.29.4.</ref>