Pelops

Reading notes

• The Loves §3.2 Pelops

  Hero who won Hippodamia by beating her father Oenomaus in a chariot race, nearly killed by the spear at Pisa.

• The Art of Love §2.1 victor's car

  Pelops, who carried off Hippodamia in the chariot with which he won her by defeating her father Oenomaus.

• The Heroides §8 Pelops

  Hermione and Orestes' ancestor, son of Tantalus; through him Orestes traces descent to Jove.

• The Heroides §16 Priam's father-figure foil (Pelops)

  Pelops, ancestor of Menelaus, who murdered Myrtilus — set against Priam's unstained line.

• The Heroides §17 Pelops

  Son of Tantalus, ancestor of the Spartan royal line, part of Helen's nobility.

• Ibis §13 son of Tantalus

  Pelops, served up by his father Tantalus to test the gods, then restored to life.

• Metamorphoses §6.142 Pelops

  Son of Tantalus, served up by his father to test the gods; restored to life, he was given an ivory shoulder in place of the one Ceres had eaten.

• Metamorphoses §8.223 Pelopian fields

  Pelops, after whom the Peloponnese is named; his line ruled there.