![]() Once invited them to a repast, and on that occasion killed his own son, and havingīoiled him set the flesh before them that they might eat it. (a) The first tells how Tantalus, the favourite of the gods, (c) of his relation to his sons, to which may be added the honours paid to his The legends about Pelops consist mainly of (a) the story of his beingĬut to pieces and boiled (b) of his contest with Oenomaus and Hippodamia and Immigrant in them, also, he is called the tamer of horses and the favourite of Represent him as a native of Greece and there can be little doubt that in theĮarliest traditions Pelops was described as a native of Greece and not as a foreign Others describe himĪs a Paphlagonian, and call the Paphlagonians themselves Pelopeioi. Pelops was a Phrygian, who was expelled by Ilus from Phrygia (Ovid, Met.viii.Ħ22), and thereupon migrated with his great wealth to Pisa. According to a tradition which became very general in later times, Him the great southern peninsula of Greece was believed to have derived its name Pelops was king of Pisa in Elis, and from By Axioche or the nymph Danais he is said ![]() Hippasus, Cleon, Argius, Alcathous, Aelius, Pittheus, Troezen, Nicippe, and Lysidice, Thyestes, Dias, Cynosurus, Corinthius, Hippalmus (Hippalcmus or Hippalcimus), He was married to Hippodamia, by whom he became the father of Atreus, Of Tantalus and Dione, the daughter of Atlas.
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