Apollo at the wedding of Thetis and Peleus

• Autores: Ioanna Hadjicosti
• Localización: Antiquité classique, ISSN 0770-2817, Nº. 75, 2006, págs. 15-22
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The wedding of Peleus and Thetis is one of the most celebrated stories in the tradition. It is always described as a happy occasion where the gods met and blessed the union of one of their kind to an exceptional mortal. In the tradition there are often many positive references to Achilles in the wedding scene, the child that was to be born from that union. However, although this is never explicitly said, Achilles is also the child that was to die at Troy after some years at the hands of Apollo, one of the most prominent guests at the wedding and indeed one that had a special relationship with Thetis. The problem is usually excluded from descriptions of the wedding. There are nevertheless few occasions where a poet alludes to the problem in a more or less direct way. This paper discusses four such cases. These include a hint in the Iliad, a direct accusation in Aeschylus fr. 350, an elaborate accusation in Quintus Book III and finally the absence of Apollo from the wedding scene in Catullus 64.