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In Greek mythology, Endeis was the wife of Aeacus and mother of Telamon and Peleus. Endeis was the daughter of either the Centaur King Cheiron and a woman named Chariclo, or the bandit Sciron and a daughter of Pandion of Athens. She also might have been the daughter of Sciron and Chariclo, daughter of Poseidon and the nymph Salamis. Greek mythology comprises the collected legends of Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. ... In Greek mythology, Aeacus, or Aiakos (bewailing or earth borne) was king in the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf and was so far-famed for the righteous sense of piety and justice with which he ruled over his people that his judgment was sought all over Hellas, so... Son of Aeacus, King of Aegina and Endeis and brother of Peleus, Telamon accompanied Jason as one his Argonauts, and was present at the hunt for the Calydonian Boar. ... In Greek mythology, Pēleús (Greek: Πηλεύς) was the son of Aeacus, King of Aegina. ...


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ENDEIS : Oread nymph of Mt Pelion in Thessaly ; Greek mythology (185 words)
ENDEIS was the Thessalian Nymph wife of King Aiakos of Aigina.
She was either a daughter of Skeiron King of the island of Skyros, and therefore a sister of Lykomedes, the foster-father of Akhilleus; or a daughter of the wise kentauros Kheiron.
ENDE′IS (Endêis), a daughter of Chiron, who was married to Aeacus, by whom she became the mother of Peleus and Telamon.
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