Abstract
Ettore Cingano’s chapter broadens our perspective on Thetis’ mythology by looking at her appearances in post-Homeric sources up to the late- Archaic period and reflections of such traditions in later texts. The Hesiodic (Aegimius, Catalogue of Women) and Cyclic epics (Aethiopis, Cypria, Nostoi) fill in some of the picture, which receives further elaboration in surviving iconography (notably the Francois Vase), the lyric poets (Ibycus, Pindar, Simonides) and mythographers (Apollodorus, Ptolemy the Quail). In particular, Thetis emerges as an early mythic pendant to Medea and Demeter, which generates ample scope for intergenerational contact. According to some sources, Achilles marries Medea (just as other sources relate a posthumous wedding of Achilles and Helen on the White Island), an event that connects the Trojan and Argonautic epic sagas. Later mythographers capitalize on the connection to postulate further relations, including a love story between Jason and Thetis or a beauty contest between Thetis and Medea.
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