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Pelops

[ pee-lops, pel-ops ]

noun

  1. 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

/ ˈ辱ːɒ /

noun

  1. 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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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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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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To Pelops two sons were born, Atreus and Thyestes.

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His son Pelops was restored to life by the gods, but they had to fashion a shoulder for him out of ivory.

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