Pelops Pelopswas the king of the city of Pisa in Peloponnesus, in Greek mythology. His father wasTantalus, the founder of the dynasty of the Atreides, while his mother may have beenDione, Euryanassa or Eurythemista. Pelops' father,Tantalus, wanted to make an offering to the gods, and dec...
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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. Zeus recognised the deception, cast Tantalos into Haides for eternal torment, and had the boy resurrected by the Moirai. ...
PELOPS,in Greek legend, the grandson of Zeus, son of Tantalus and Dione, and brother of Niobe. His father's home was on Mt Sipylus in Asia Minor, whence Pelops is spoken of as a Lydian or a Phrygian. Tantalus one day served up to the gods his own son Pelops, boiled and cut in...
A hero worshipped at Olympia, Pelops was, according to myth, the son of Tantalus and the father of Atreus and Thyestes. Pelops came to Greece from Asia Minor, and gave his name to the Peloponnese. Keywords: ancient GreeceCorinne Ondine Pache...
Pelops, the son of the cruel Tantalus, was a pious and virtuous prince. After his father was banished into Tartarus, a war ensued between Pelops and the king of Troy, in which the former was vanquished and forced to fly from his dominions in Phrygia. He emigrated into Greece, where, at...