the King of Phthia, and the father of Achilles, was the son of Aeacus of Ægina. He was twice married. His first wife, Antigone, the daughter of Eurystheus, the sovereign of the Phthians, brought him as her dowry the third part of her father's kingdom. His second wife, the Nereid Thetis, became by him the mother of the great Achilles. Peleus outlived his son.