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Pelias was king of Iolcus in Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, the son of Tyro

Tyro

In Greek mythology, Tyro was the daughter of Salmoneus and mother of Pelias and Neleus. Her father, Salmoneus, was the brother of Athamus and Sisyphus....
, daughter of Aleus

Aleus

Aleus was in Greek mythology a son of Apheidas, and grandson of Arcas. He was king of Tegea in Arcadia, and married to Neaera, and is said to have founded the town of Alea, Greece and the first temple of Athena Alea at Tegea....
, and of either Poseidon

Poseidon

In Greek mythology, Poseidon was the god of the sea and, as "Earth-Shaker," of earthquakes. The name of the god Nethuns in Etruscan mythology was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon....
or Cretheus

Cretheus

In Greek mythology, Cretheus, or Kretheus was the king and founder of Iolcus, the son of Aeolus and Enarete. His wives were Sidero, Tyro and either Demodice or Biadice....
. His wife is recorded as either Anaxibia

Anaxibia

Anaxibia is the name of five characters in Greek mythology.*Anaxibia, the daughter of Bias and Iphianassa, and niece of Melampus. She married Pelias, to whom she bore Acastus, Pisidice, Pelopia, Hippothoe, Alcestis, and Medusa....
, daughter of Bias

Bias (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Bias was a brother of Melampus who received one third of Argos . Bias married his cousin Pero and had one child, Talaus, with her....
, or Phylomache, daughter of Amphion

Amphion

There are several characters named Amphion in Greek mythology:* Amphion,son of Zeus and Antiope , and twin brother of Zethus . Together they are famous for building Thebes ....
.

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Pelias was king of Iolcus in Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Tyro

In Greek mythology, Tyro was the daughter of Salmoneus and mother of Pelias and Neleus. Her father, Salmoneus, was the brother of Athamus and Sisyphus....
, daughter of Aleus

Aleus

Poseidon

Cretheus

Anaxibia

Bias (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Bias was a brother of Melampus who received one third of Argos . Bias married his cousin Pero and had one child, Talaus, with her....
, or Phylomache, daughter of Amphion

Amphion

There are several characters named Amphion in Greek mythology:* Amphion,son of Zeus and Antiope , and twin brother of Zethus . Together they are famous for building Thebes ....
. He was the father of Acastus

Acastus

Acastus is a character in Greek mythology. He sailed with Jason and the Argonauts, and participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar....
, Pisidice

Pisidice

In Greek mythology, Pisidice was one of four individuals:* a daughter of Pelias.* a daughter of Nestor.* a daughter of Aeolus.* a princess of Methymna....
, Alcestis

Alcestis

Alcestis is a princess in Greek mythology, known for her love of her Admetus. Her story was popularised in Euripides's tragedy Alcestis ....
, Pelopia

Pelopia

In Greek mythology, Pelopia was a name attributed to three individuals.*Pelopia, the daughter of Thyestes. Thyestes had been fighting with his brother, Atreus, for the throne of Mycenae for some time, as well as having an affair with Atreus' wife, Aerope....
, Hippothoe

Hippothoe

In Greek mythology, Hippothoe is the name of five characters. The name means "Imperious mare".1. Hippothoe was a daughter of Mestor, son of Perseus, and of Lysidice, daughter of Pelops....
, Asteropia, Antinoe, and Medusa.

Tyro was married to Cretheus

Cretheus

Aeson

In Greek mythology, Aeson or Aison was the son of Tyro and Cretheus, who also had his brothers Pheres and Amythaon. Aeson was the father of Jason and Promachus with Polymede, the daughter of Autolycus....
) but loved Enipeus

Enipeus

In Greek mythology, Enipeus was a river god, son of Oceanus and Tethys . Enipeus was loved by a mortal woman named Tyro, who was married to a mortal man named Cretheus....
, a river god. She pursued Enipeus, who refused her advances. One day, Poseidon, filled with lust for Tyro, disguised himself as Enipeus and from their union was born Pelias and Neleus

Neleus

Neleus was the son of Poseidon and Tyro, brother of Pelias. Tyro was married to Cretheus but loved Enipeus, a river god. She pursued Enipeus, who refused her advances....
, twin boys. Tyro exposed her sons on a mountain and they were raised by a maid. When they reached adulthood, Pelias and Neleus found Tyro and killed their stepmother, Sidero

Sidero

In Greek mythology, Sidero was the second wife of Salmoneus and stepmother of the twins Pelias and Neleus. She mistreated the twins' mother Tyro horribly, incurring their wrath when they reached adulthood....
, for having mistreated her. Sidero hid in a temple to Hera but Pelias killed her anyway, causing Hera's undying hatred of Pelias. Pelias was power-hungry and he wished to gain dominion over all of Thessaly

Thessaly

Thessaly is one of the 13 Peripheries of Greece of Greece, and is further sub-divided into 4 Prefectures of Greece. The capital of the periphery and traditional Regions of Greece is Larissa....
. To this end, he banished Neleus and Pheres, and locked Aeson in the dungeons in Iolcus. While in there, Aeson married and had several children, most famously, Jason

Jason

Jason was a late ancient Greece Greek mythology figure, famous as the leader of the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcus....
. Aeson sent Jason to Chiron

Chiron

In Greek mythology, Chiron or Cheiron was held as the superlative centaur among his brethren. Like the satyrs, centaurs were notorious for being overly indulgent drinkers and carousers, given to violence when intoxicated, and generally uncultured delinquents....
the centaur

Centaur

In Greek mythology, the centaurs are a race of creatures composed of part human and part horse. In early Attica Pottery of ancient Greece, they are depicted with the torso of a human joined at the waist to the horse's withers, where the horse's neck would be....
, on Mount Pelium

Pelion

Pelion or Pelium is a mountain at the southeastern part of Thessaly in central Greece, forming a hook-like peninsula between the Pagasetic Gulf and the Aegean Sea....
, to be educated while Pelias, paranoid that he would be overthrown, was warned by an oracle

Oracle

An oracle is a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophecy opinion; an infallible authority, usually Spirituality in nature....
to beware a man wearing one sandal.

Many years later, Pelias was holding the Olympics

Ancient Olympic Games

The Ancient Olympic Games, originally referred to as simply the Olympic Games were a series of athletic competitions held for representatives of various city-states of Ancient Greece....
in honor of Poseidon when Jason, rushing to Iolcus (by the modern city of Volos

Volos

Volos is a coastal port city situated at the center of the Greece mainland, about 326 km north from Athens and 215 km south from Thessaloniki. It is the capital of the Magnesia Prefectures of Greece....
), lost one of his sandals in the flooded river Anaurus, while helping someone cross. In Virgil's Aeneid, Hera

Hera

In the Twelve Olympians of classical Greek Mythology, Hera or Here was the wife and older sister of Zeus. Her chief function was as goddess of women and marriage....
had diguised herself as an old woman, whom Jason helped across the river and then lost his sandal. When Jason entered Iolcus, he was announced as a man wearing one sandal. Paranoid, Pelias asked him what he (Jason) would do if confronted with the man who would be his downfall. Jason responded that he would send that man after the Golden Fleece

Golden Fleece

In Greek mythology, the Golden Fleece is the fleece of the winged ram Chrysomallos . It figures in the tale of Jason and his band of Argonauts, who set out on a quest for the fleece in order to place Jason rightfully on the throne of Iolcus in Thessaly....
. Pelias took that advice and sent Jason to retrieve the Golden Fleece.

During Jason's absence, Pelias thought the Argo

Argo

In Greek mythology, the Argo was the ship on which Jason and the Argonauts sailed from Iolcus to retrieve the Golden Fleece....
had sunk, and this was what he told Aeson and Promachus

Promachus

In Greek mythology, Promachus referred to several different people.*Son of Aeson and Alcimede, killed by Pelias along with his father while his brother, Jason, searched for the Golden Fleece....
, who committed suicide by drinking poison or were both killed directly by Pelias. While Jason searched for the Golden Fleece, Hera, who was still angry at Pelias, conspired to make him fall in love with Medea

Medea

Medea is a woman in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of Aeetes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children: Mermeros and Pheres....
, whom she hoped would kill Pelias. When Jason and Medea returned, Pelias still refused to give up his throne. Medea conspired to have Pelias' own daughters (Peliades
Peliades

In Greek mythology, the Peliades were the daughters of Pelias and should not be confused with the Pleiades. Euripides entitled his earliest known tragedy Peliades; he entered it into the Dionysia of 455 BC but did not win....
) kill him. She told them she could turn an old ram into a young ram by cutting up the old ram and boiling it. During the demonstration, a live, young ram jumped out of the pot. Excited, the girls cut their father into pieces and threw them in a pot. Pelias did not survive. Pelias' son Acastus later drove Jason and Medea to Corinth and so reclaimed the kingdom.

Other uses

Pelias is the name of a fictional sorcerer

Magician (fantasy)

A magician, sorcerer, wizard, or a person known under one of Magician #Names and terminology in fiction is someone who uses or practices Magic that derives from supernatural or occult sources....
who appears in some of the Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Barbarian

Conan the Barbarian is a fictional character often associated with the Fantasy subgenres sword and sorcery . This antiheroic character has been credited with being the most famous fictional barbarian, and one of the most well known iconic figures in American fantasy....
fantasy adventure stories of American author Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard

This article is about writer Robert E. Howard. For the Medal of Honor recipient, try Robert L. Howard.Robert Ervin Howard was an United States author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres....
, where he assists the titular hero with his various quests. Inspired by this, a character of the same name also appears in the computer game NetHack

NetHack

NetHack is a single-player roguelike video game originally released in 1987 in video gaming. It is a descendant of an earlier game called Hack , which is a descendant of Rogue ....
, if a player of the game chooses to portray a barbarian. The name of a certain Fire Emblem prince, which has thus far been romanized as "Pelleas", may also be derived from "Pelias".