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

/ ˈpiːlɒps /

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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Resurrected by the gods, Pelops has a son whom he names Atreus, and Atreus repeats the family curse.

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When the gods restored Pelops to life, Ceres was very sorry for her carelessness and gave him a shoulder of ivory.

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That admission was ill-judged: he ought to have denied that Pelops ever existed, and laughed at the blundering Greeks.

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Lycophron alludes to her cruel rites, when he is speaking of Tantalus, and Pelops.

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The kingdom of Mycen was filled with enormous and horrible crimes, from the time it came into the family of Pelops.

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They soon afterwards became united, and Pelops reigned in Pisa for many years in great splendour.

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