Thetis and Peleus WH Auden's poem The Shield of Achilles imagines Thetis's witnessing of the forging of Achilles's shield. In 1939, HMS Thetis (N25) then a new design of submarine, sank on her trials in the River Mersey shortly after she left the dock in Liverpool. There were 103 people on board and 99 died. The cause of the accident was an inspection hole to allow a sailor to look into the torpedo tubes. A special closure for this inspection hole had been painted over. Once submerged the torpedo tube flooded and the bow of the vessel sank. The stern was still above water. Ninety-nine people, half of them dockyard workers, died of carbon monoxide poisoning. In 1981, British actress Maggie Smith portrayed Thetis in the Ray Harryhausen film Clash of the Titans (for which she won a Saturn Award). In the film, she acts as the main antagonist to the hero Perseus for the mistreatment of her son Calibos. In 1999, British poet Carol Ann Duffy published The World's Wife poetry collection, which included a poem based on Thetis. In 2004, British actress Julie Christie portrayed Thetis in the Wolfgang Petersen film Troy. In 2011, American novelist Madeline Miller portrayed Thetis in The Song of Achilles as a harsh and remote deity. She does not approve of Patroclus and tries to separate him and Achilles on multiple occasions. The 2018 novel The Silence of the Girls'' focuses on the character of Briseis in the first person, with interjections giving Achilles' internal state of mind, including his tormented relationship with his mother. In 2019, New Zealand graphic designer Rachel Smythe portrayed Thetis in "Lore: Olympus". She is Zeus' personal secretary whom she also has an affair with. She is also the toxic best friend of Minthe and works with her to bring down Persephone. Gallery Thetis, Peleus and Zeus Wedding of Peleus and Thetis Thetis and Achilles Notes External links THETIS from the Theoi Project Slatkin: The Power of Thetis: a seminal work freely available in the University of California Press, eScholarship collection. Greek sea goddesses Nereids Deities in the Iliad Deeds of Zeus Deeds of Poseidon Achilles Metamorphoses characters Women of the Trojan war Sea and river goddesses Shapeshifters in Greek mythology