Editing Iris (mythology) (section)

=== Titanomachy ===
[[File:Winged goddess Cdm Paris 392.jpg|thumb|right|222px|Winged female figure holding a caduceus: Iris (messenger of the gods) or [[Nike (mythology)|Nike]] (Victory)]]

Iris is said to travel on the rainbow while carrying messages from the gods to mortals. In some records, Iris is a sister to fellow messenger goddess [[Arke]] ("swift", "quick"); both sisters originally sided with the Olympian gods during the Titanomachy, but Arke eventually flew out of the company of Olympians to join the [[Titans]] as their own messenger goddess, so the two sisters found each other on opposite camps during the battle.<ref name="ptoly"/>

After the war was won by the Olympian leader Zeus and his allies, Zeus punished Arke by tearing her wings from her and in time gave them as a gift to the [[Nereid]] [[Thetis]] at her wedding to [[Peleus]], who in turn gave them to her son, [[Achilles]], who wore them on his feet.<ref name="ptoly">[[Ptolemy Hephaestion]], ''New History'' Book 6; epitomized in [[Photios I of Constantinople|Photius]]' ''[[Bibliotheca (Photius)|Bibliotheca]]'' [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=237#190.46 190]</ref> Achilles was sometimes known as ''podarkes'' (feet like [the wings of] Arke). Podarces was also the original name of [[Priam]], the king of [[Troy]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Andrews |first1=P. B. S. |title=The Falls of Troy in Greek Tradition |journal=Greece & Rome |date=1965 |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=28–37 |doi=10.1017/S0017383500014753 |jstor=642402 |s2cid=162661766 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/642402 |access-date=27 October 2022 |issn=0017-3835}}</ref> Iris on the other hand maintained her position as the messenger of the gods alongside Hermes; often Iris served specifically as Hera's personal messenger and servant.