![]() 144) mentions Pleisthenes and Chrysippus as sons of Pelops by Hippodaineia. 89) he had only six sons by Hippodanieia, whereas the Scholiast ( ad Ol. 5.) By Axioche or the nymph Danais he is said to have been the father of Chrysippus (Schol. ยง 5), Thyestes, Dias, Cynosurus, Corinthus, Hippalmus (Hippalcmus or Hippalcimus), Hippasus, Cleon, Argeius, Alcathus, Aelius, Pittheus, Troezen, Nicippe and Lysidice. 7.) He was married to Hippodameia, by whom he became the father of Atreus (Letreus, Paus. Some writers call the mother of Pelops Euryanassa or Clytia. 41), though it may also contain an allusion to Pluto, the mother of Tantalus, who was a daughter of Cronos. init.) As he was thus a great-grandson of Cronos, he is called by Pindar Kronios ( Ol. PELOPS (Pelops), a grandson of Zeus and son of Tantalus and Dione, the daughter of Atlas. KHRYSIPPOS (by Danais) (Plutarch Parallel Stories 33) KHRYSIPPOS (Apollodorus 3.5.5, Aelian Miscellany 13.5, Hyginus Fabulae 85) HIPPALKIMOS (by Hippodameia) (Hyginus Fabulae 14) ATREUS, THYESTES, HIPPALKOS (by Hippodameia) (Hyginus Fabulae 84) ATREUS, THYESTES (by Hippodameia) (Plutarch Parallel Stories 33, Hyginus Fabulae 85) PITTHEUS, LYSIDIKE (Plutarch Theseus 7.1) ALKATHOUS (Apollodorus 3.12.7, Pausanias 1.41.3) ATREUS, THYESTES, PITTHEUS (by Hippodameia) (Apollodorus E2.10) ATREUS, THYESTES, ASTYDAMEIA, LYSIDIKE, NIKIPPE (Apollodorus 2.4.5) PITTHEUS, (mother of) ALKMENE (Euripides Heracleidae 204, Euripides Medea 683) 6x sons (by Hippodameia) (Pindar Olympian 1.88) TANTALOS & DIONE (Hyginus Fabulae 83) OFFSPRING TANTALOS & EURYNASSA (Plutarch Parallel Stories 33) TANTALOS (Cypria Frag 12, Pindar Olympian 1.36, Apollodorus E2.2, Lycophron Alexandra 53, Diodorus Siculus 4.73.5, Pausanias 2.22.3 & 2.25.10, Ovid Heroides 17.54, Fulgentius 2.25) His descendants included Herakles, Eurystheus, Theseus, Atreus, Agamemnon and Menelaus. Pelops was one of the most important founding-kings of myth. His rival in the east was King Perseus of Argos, but the two houses formed an alliance with the marriage of the daughters of Pelops to the sons of Perseus. Pelops quickly grew his empire and came to control most of the western Peloponnesos. The dying man called down a curse upon his house which would plague Pelops and his descendants for many generations to come. When Myrtilos demanded his reward, he treacherously cast him off a cliff into the sea. Oinomaos was killed as a result and Pelops seized control of the kingdom. The king would slay his daughter's suitors as he overtook them in a chariot race, so Pelops bribed the charioteer Myrtilos to tamper with the axle. He later travelled across the sea to Greece to compete for the hand of Hippodameia, daughter of King Oinomaos (Oenomaus) of Pisa. The young Pelops became a lover of the god Poseidon who provided him with a chariot drawn by swift-some say winged-horses. This they replaced with one made of ivory. The Fates collected up his remains and cast them into a boiling cauldron, restoring his form except for his left shoulder which had inadvertently been devoured by the goddess Demeter. Zeus recognised the deception, cast Tantalos into Haides for eternal torment, and had the boy resurrected by the Moirai. His father King Tantalos of Lydia was impious man who, wishing to test the fallibility of the gods, butchered the young Pelops and served him at a feast of the gods. PELOPS was a king of the Eleian city of Pisa and the eponymous overlord of the western Peloponnesos, the so-called "Island of Pelops". ![]()
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