Pelia (Ancient Greek: Πελία, romanized: Pelia) in Greek mythology is a minor Cypriot figure, kin to Adonis, who played a role in a minor myth. Pelia had...

In Greek mythology, Pelias (/ˈpiːliæs/; Ancient Greek: Πελίας) may refer to the following characters: Pelias, king of Iolcus and uncle of Jason who sent...

Pelias (/ˈpiːliæs/ PEE-lee-ass; Ancient Greek: Πελίας) was king of Iolcus in Greek mythology. He was the one who sent Jason on the quest for the Golden...

mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology...

Melus a companion to his son Adonis. Melus eventually married a woman named Pelia, who was kin to Cinyras and Adonis, and had a son by her, also named Melus...

Centaurus and Lapithes - Sons of Ixion and Nephele or Apollo and Stilbe. Pelias and Neleus - Sons of Poseidon and Tyro. Phrixus and Helle - Children of...

miniseries of the same name. Pelias (Aeson's half-brother) was power-hungry and sought to gain dominion over all of Thessaly. Pelias was the progeny of a union...

these dogs, Cyrene had been able to win the prize in the funeral games of Pelias. Pindar describes her in his Pythian Ode: And by Hypseus was reared this...

part in the funeral games organized in honor of Pelias by his son Acastus, the famous Athla epi Pelia in which some of the foremost heroes of Greece competed...

to destroy the city of Iolcus in revenge for the treachery of its king Pelias. When their sister Helen was abducted by Theseus, the half-brothers invaded...

The film differs in some ways from the traditional telling in Greek mythology: Pelias does not kill his half-brother King Aristo (Aeson) but instead had...

on the Northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos. Mythology portal Ancient Greece portal Melus Heliades Pelia Clytie Cyparissus Alcyone and Ceyx Hesychius...

who competed for the chariot-race in celebration of the funeral games of Pelias. The swift horse Arion was also said to begotten by loud-piping Zephyrus...

performed. Hera, who was angry at Pelias, conspired to make Jason fall in love with Medea, who, Hera hoped, would kill Pelias. Hera's plan worked, and the...

hated Pelias because he had killed Sidero, his step-grandmother, in one of the goddess's temples. She later convinced Jason and Medea to kill Pelias. The...

he killed himself, mourning over Adonis' death. Likewise, Melus's wife Pelia was turned into a dove. She was also associated with pomegranates, possibly...

In Greek mythology, Chiron (/ˈkaɪrən/ KY-rən; also Cheiron or Kheiron; Ancient Greek: Χείρων, romanized: Kheírōn, lit. 'hand') was held to be the superlative...

birth to twin sons, Pelias and Neleus, fathered by Poseidon. With Cretheus, she had three sons: Aeson, Pheres, and Amythaon. In mythology, Poseidon disguised...

son of Poseidon and Tyro and king of Pylos. He was the twin brother of Pelias, who played a key role in the story of the Argonauts. He and most of his...

father of Chloris and Phylomache, respectively the wives of Neleus and Pelias. Also, Elara, the mother of the giant Tityus was also described sometimes...

goddesses, and many other divine and semi-divine figures from ancient Greek mythology and ancient Greek religion. The Greeks created images of their deities...

one version of the story, he was imprisoned by his half-brother Pelias, and when Pelias intended to kill him he committed suicide. In another story, he...

Euripides's tragedy Alcestis. Alcestis was the fairest among the daughters of Pelias, king of Iolcus, and either Anaxibia or Phylomache. She was sister to Acastus...

fate. Ancient Greece portal Mythology portal Heliades Pelia Niobe Wright, M. Rosemary. "A Dictionary of Classical Mythology: Summary of Transformations"...

In ancient Greece, the surviving Greek mythology features a wide collection of myths where the subjects are physically transformed, usually through either...

mistreated. Pelias and Neleus, Tyro's twin sons, sought revenge when they reached adulthood. Although Sidero fled from them into Hera's district, Pelias nevertheless...

win the hand of Alcestis, the daughter of Pelias, king of Iolcus. Alcestis had so many suitors that Pelias set an apparently impossible task to the suitors—to...

disguised himself as Enipeus, and from their union were born the heroes Pelias and Neleus, twin boys. In an archaic myth, Poseidon once pursued Demeter...

where the rightful king Aeson had been imprisoned by his evil half-brother Pelias. In some accounts, Alcimede was called the daughter of Autolycus; the same...

Canes was said to be a king of Phocis and husband of Evadne, daughter of Pelias. Athenians localised the myth by asserting that Cephalus was married to...