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

Example Sentences

Silvia: A few years ago, I read “Food for the Gods” by Karen Dudley, a charming take on Greek mythology with the twist that the protagonist, Pelops, is not a heroic man out to save the world, but a celebrity chef.

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"Pelops thereby won but killed Myrtilus who cursed his lineage and brought about the curse of the Pelops. The king's funerary games are said to be the origin of the Olympics."

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In place of the orator’s “dead metaphor,” Hutchinson offers a handful of live ones: this “tweeded rodent scholar” is a meretricious pedant who “curried Pelops / in the Antilles to straddle the ivory laps” like an exotic dancer at a trustees’ meeting, as well as a kind of Messiah-Wizard of Oz, “unveiling / the veil of the shroud of the curtain,” and a sham Vegas magician dazzling the crowd with “spectroscopic effect.”

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The father died as a result, and Pelops, haunted and remorseful, set up the early competitions in his honor.

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Separated from the Temple of Zeus by a sacred area housing the supposed grave mound of Pelops, there stood a second, squatter temple dedicated to Hera.

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