Pelops

[pee-lops, pel-ops]

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noun

Classical Mythology.��a son of Tantalus and Dione, slaughtered by his father and served to the Olympians as food; Hermes restored him to life and he later ruled over southern Greece, which was called Peloponnesus after him.

Pelops

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noun

Greek myth the son of Tantalus, who as a child was killed by his father and served up as a meal for the gods

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Either she fell in love with Pelops or she felt the time had come to put a stop to that sort of racing.

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He pulled out the bolts that held the wheels of the King’s chariot, and the victory was Pelops’ with no trouble at all.

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And yet it seemed at first that the gods had chosen her out for good fortune as they had her brother Pelops.

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For Pelops’ winning the chariot race I have preferred Apollodorus, of the first or second century A.D., who gives the fullest account that has come down to us.

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He had his only son Pelops killed, boiled in a great cauldron, and served to the gods.

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Peloponnesus peloria

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