Peleus and Thetis were the parents of what famed warrior?

Peleus and Thetis were the parents of Achilles, the famed warrior of Greek mythology and the central Greek hero of Homer's Iliad.

Peleus was a mortal king associated with Phthia and the Myrmidons, while Thetis was a Nereid, a sea nymph and daughter of the sea god Nereus. Their marriage was arranged partly because a prophecy said Thetis's son would become greater than his father. The wedding feast became famous when Eris, goddess of discord, was excluded and threw down the Apple of Discord, setting events in motion that eventually led to the Trojan War.

Achilles was their only surviving son in several mythological traditions. Thetis tried to make him immortal, although the familiar story that she dipped him in the River Styx and left his heel vulnerable comes from later sources, especially the Roman poet Statius. Homer's Iliad does not describe Achilles as invulnerable. Peleus later entrusted Achilles to the centaur Chiron for education, helping shape the warrior who became Greece's greatest fighter at Troy.