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Peleus

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Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
Peleus
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
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Aliases

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No aliases recorded.

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

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·Uncertain

Achilles asks whether old, failing-limbed Peleus still rules the Myrmidons and receives respect in Hellas and Phthia.

See evidence text
“does he still rule among the Myrmidons, or do they show him no respect throughout Hellas and Phthia now that he is old and his limbs fail him?”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

2
·Remembered
“the son of Peleus”
·Direct
“Achilles son of Peleus”

Passage preview

Book 11 · Passage 40

‘As we two sat weeping and talking thus sadly with one another the ghost of Achilles came up to us with Patroclus, Antilochus, and Ajax who was the finest and goodliest man of all the Danaans after the son of Peleus. The fleet descendant of Aeacus knew me and spoke piteously, saying, ‘Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, what deed of daring will you undertake next, that you venture down to the house of Hades among us silly dead, who are but the ghosts of them that can labour no more?’