Which Greek hero was the father of Achilles?

Which Greek hero was the father of Achilles? Peleus was Achilles’s father.

Peleus was a Greek hero and king of Phthia, while Achilles’s mother was Thetis, a Nereid or sea nymph. Their marriage was celebrated as a major mythological event, and the wedding feast famously helped trigger the events surrounding the Trojan War when Eris’s golden apple caused a dispute among goddesses.

Peleus belonged to a heroic family: he was the son of Aeacus and the brother of Telamon. He was also associated with Jason and the Argonauts. After Achilles’s birth, Peleus entrusted the boy to the centaur Chiron, who raised and educated him on Mount Pelion.

A frequent mix-up is identifying Zeus or Poseidon as Achilles’s father because both gods were connected with Thetis in stories about her marriage prospects. Thetis ultimately married the mortal Peleus because a prophecy said her son would become greater than his father. Achilles’s epithet “Pelides” means “son of Peleus.”