Pélops

Myth

According to Ovide, Pélops was killed in its childhood by his/her father who was used it for the gods to test their omniscience. The gods brought back Pélops to the life and gave him an ivory shoulder to replace that which Déméter, the only divinity who had not recognized her food, had eaten. Certain traditions affirm that the descendants of Pélops had kept all of them a white mark on the shoulder. It was following this resurrection that Poséidon fell in love with the young man and removed it in order to make of it his/her lover and his wine waiter, like later Zeus with the young person Ganymède.

Pélops obtained the hand of Hippodamie in a famous race of tank against the father of this one, Œnomaos, king of Pisa in Élide. According to Pindare, this king was accustomed to killing the applicants who lost against him. Pélops gained the competition not only by leading the winged horses which Poséidon had given him, but by bribing Myrtilos, the cartwright of Œnomaos, so that it withdraws a bolt of the tank of its Master. The king died trailed by his horses. Pélops drowned thereafter Myrtilos to avoid paying the bribe, that is to say half of the kingdom of its Master and a night with Hippodamie. While dying, Myrtilos curses Pélops and its descendants. One allotted to this curse misfortunes of the house of Atrée, the son of Pélops. Hippodamy gave him many other children, of which Thyeste, Trézène, Sicyon, Sciron, Coprée, Alcathoos, Nicippé, Cléoné, Eurydice, Eurymède and Pitthée. With the nymph Danaïs, it had another son, Chrysippe.

Sources

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