Editing Oenomaus (section)

== Family ==
Oenomaeus' mother was either [[naiad]] [[Harpina]] (daughter of the [[river god]] Phliasian [[Asopus]], the armed (''harpe'')<ref>{{Cite web |title=HARPINA - Elean Naiad Nymph of Greek Mythology |url=https://www.theoi.com/Nymphe/NympheHarpina.html |access-date=2023-10-16 |website=www.theoi.com}}</ref> spirit of a spring near Pisa)<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], 5.22.6; [[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#73.1 4.73.1].</ref> or [[Sterope (Pleiad)|Sterope]], one of the [[Pleiades (Greek mythology)|Pleiades]],<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#84 84] ("Oenomaus, son of Mars and Asterope, daughter of Atlas"), ''Fabula'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#250 250] ("Oenomaus, son of Mars by Asterie, daughter of Atlas").</ref> whom some identify as his consort instead.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], 3.110–111; Hyginus, ''[[De astronomia]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/207#2.21.5 2.21.5]; he was depicted on the pediment of the [[Statue of Zeus at Olympia|Temple of Zeus at Olympia]] with Sterope, whom [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] also took for his wife: "On the right of Zeus Oinomaos with a helmet on his head, and by him Sterope his wife, who was one of the daughters of Atlas."</ref>

He married, if not Sterope, then [[Evarete]] of [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]], the daughter of [[Acrisius]] and [[Eurydice of Argos|Eurydice]]. Yet others give [[Eurythoe]], daughter of [[Danaus]], either as his mother<ref>[[Scholia]] on [[Apollonius Rhodius]], 1.752</ref> or consort.<ref>[[Tzetzes]] ad [[Lycophron]], [https://topostext.org/work/860#157 157]</ref>{{AI-generated source|date=November 2024}} His children besides Hippodamia were [[Leucippus (mythology)|Leucippus]] (who perished because of his love for [[Daphne]]) and [[Alcippe (Greek mythology)|Alcippe]] (mother of [[Marpessa]] by [[Evenus (mythology)|Evenus]]). [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], who is generally skeptical about stories of humans descending from gods, makes Oenomaus son of a mortal father, Alxion.<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], 5.1.6</ref> John Tzetzes adduces a version which, in the same vein, calls Oenomaus son of a [[Hyperochus]] by Sterope.<ref>Tzetzes ad Lycophron, [https://topostext.org/work/860#149 149] & [https://topostext.org/work/860#219 219]</ref>{{AI-generated source|date=November 2024}} The genealogy offered in the earliest literary reference, [[Euripides]]' ''[[Iphigenia in Tauris]]'', would place him two generations before the [[Trojan War]], making him the great-grandfather of the Atreides, [[Agamemnon]] and [[Menelaus]]. 
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