Pelias (son of Poseidon)
Pelias ( Greek Πελίας ) is in Greek mythology the son of Poseidon and Tyro . He was married to Anaxibia and fathered five children with her: Akastos , Peisidike , Pelopeia , Hippothoe and Alcestis .
Tyro was married to King Cretheus of Iolkos , with whom they had their sons Aison , Pheres and Amythaon . However, she loved the Oceanid Enipeus , a river god. She then tried to seduce him, but Enipeus resisted her advances. One day Poseidon, who in turn was inflamed with passion for Tyro, approached her in the form of Enipeus and did with the deceived Tyro that which Enipeus was decently unable to do. The twins Neleus and Pelias came from this connection .
Both were abandoned by their mother for fear of her husband's jealousy, but found by a horse herdsman and (according to another version) brought up by a maid. When the brothers grew up, they found their way back to their mother. However, Pelias killed Tire's stepmother , Sidero , for continuing to treat Tyro badly and cruelly. Since he himself murdered her on the altar in the temple of Hera , where she had taken refuge, Pelias incurred the inextinguishable wrath of the mother of gods.
The power-hungry Pelias, however, sought rule over all of Thessaly and sent Neleus and Pheres into exile while he lured Aison into the caves of Iolkos . Jason , Aison's son, was sent to steal the Golden Fleece from Colchis in the hope of getting rid of Jason's.
Jason manages to conquer the fleece with the help of his ship, the Argo , his companions, the Argonauts , and his lover, the sorceress Medea , and he returns safely with her and the golden ram's skin. Arriving home, Jason learns that Pelias drove his father Aison to his death by telling the lie that Argo had perished. In vengeance, Medea leads the daughters of Pelias to cut up and cook Pelias with the lie that they would rejuvenate Pelias by this act. Akastos buried his father and drove Jason and Medea from Iolkos. Both fled to Corinth.
literature
- Paul Weizsäcker : Pelias 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, Col. 1848–1861 ( digitized version ).
