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== Family == Pelops was a son of [[Tantalus]]<ref>[[Tyrtaeus]], fr. 12.7; ''[[Cypria]]'' fr. 16.4; [[Simonides of Ceos|Simonides]], fr. 11.36; [[Pindar]], ''[[Pindar's First Olympian Ode|Olympian Odes]]'' 1.36; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#124 124], [https://topostext.org/work/206#245 245] & [https://topostext.org/work/206#273 273]</ref> and either [[Dione (mythology)|Dione]],<ref>Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#82 82]-[https://topostext.org/work/206#84 83]</ref> [[Euryanassa]],<ref>[[Scholia]] ad [[Euripides]], ''[[Orestes (play)|Orestes]]'' [https://archive.org/details/scholiaineuripi00schwgoog/page/n128/mode/1up?view=theater 4] & [https://archive.org/details/scholiaineuripi00schwgoog/page/96/mode/1up?view=theater 11]</ref> [[Eurythemista]],<ref name=":0">Scholia ad Euripides, ''Orestes'' [https://archive.org/details/scholiaineuripi00schwgoog/page/96/mode/1up?view=theater 11]</ref> or [[Clytie|Clytia]].<ref>Scholia ad Euripides, ''Orestes'' [https://archive.org/details/scholiaineuripi00schwgoog/page/96/mode/1up?view=theater 11] from [[Pherecydes of Syros|Pherecydes]], fr. 93</ref> In some accounts, he was called a [[Legitimacy (family law)|bastard]] son of Tantalus while others named his parents as [[Atlas (mythology)|Atlas]] and the [[nymph]] [[Linus (mythology)|Linos]]. Others would make Pelops the son of [[Hermes]] and [[Calyce (mythology)|Calyce]]<ref>Scholion on [[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' 2.104b</ref> while another says that he was an [[Achaea (ancient region)|Achaean]] from [[Olenus (Achaea)|Olenus]].<ref>Scholia on Pindar, ''Olympian Odes'' 1.37a & 9.51.a ([[Fragmente der griechischen Historiker|FGrHist]] 298 F1) with the historian Autesion as the authority</ref><ref>[[Robert Fowler (academic)|Robert Fowler]], ''Early Greek Mythography: Commentary'' 14.1 (2013): "These two genealogies were probably meant to cancel Pelops' foreign origins; the first is transparently derived from the passage upon which the scholiast is commenting."</ref> Of [[Phrygians|Phrygian]]<ref>[[Hecataeus of Miletus|Hecataeus]], fr. 119; [[Hellanicus of Lesbos|Hellanicus]], fr. 76; [[Aeschylus|Aischylus]], fr. 158, 162; [[Herodotus]], 7.8.1 & 7.11.4; [[Bacchylides]], ''[[Epinikion|Epinician Odes]]'' 8.31; Ai. 1292; [[Sophocles]], ''[[Antigone (Sophocles play)|Antigone]]'' 824โ5; Euripides, fr. 223.101-2 ([[Antiope of Thebes|Antiope]]); cf. Scholia ad Pindar, 01.9.15a; ad Lycophron, 150</ref> or [[Lydia]]n<ref>Pindar, ''Olympian Odes'' 1.1.24 & 9.9</ref> birth, he departed his homeland for Greece, and won the crown of [[Pisa (Greece)|Pisa]] or [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]] from King [[Oenomaus]] in a chariot race, then married Oenomaus's daughter, [[Hippodamia (daughter of Oenomaus)|Hippodamia]]. Pelops and Hippodamia had numerous children. Their sons include [[Pittheus]]<ref>Euripides, ''[[Children of Heracles|Heracleidae]]'' 207; Euripides, ''[[Medea (play)|Medea]]'' 683'';'' [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.15.7&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Pelops 3.15.7] & [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+Epit.+E.2.10&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Pelops E.2.10]; Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.30.8&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Pelops 2.30.8]; [[Plutarch]], ''Theseus'' 3.1 & 7.1; Scholia ad Euripides, ''Orestes'' [https://archive.org/details/scholiaineuripi00schwgoog/page/n128/mode/1up?view=theater 4]; ad Pindar, ''Olympian Odes'' 1.144c-e</ref> (or his mother was [[Dia (mythology)|Dia]]<ref>Scholia ad Pindar, ''Olympian Ode'' 1.144</ref>), [[Troezen (mythology)|Troezen]],<ref>Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.30.8&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Pelops 2.30.8]; Scholia ad Euripides, ''Orestes'' [https://archive.org/details/scholiaineuripi00schwgoog/page/n128/mode/1up?view=theater 4]</ref> [[Alcathous of Megara|Alcathous]],<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.12.7&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Pelops 3.12.7]; Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.1.41.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Pelops 1.41.3]; Scholia ad Euripides, ''Orestes'' [https://archive.org/details/scholiaineuripi00schwgoog/page/n128/mode/1up?view=theater 4]; ad Pindar, ''Olympian Odes'' 1.144cโe</ref> [[Dimoetes]],<ref>[[Parthenius of Nicaea|Parthenius]], [https://topostext.org/work/550#31 31] from [[Phylarchus]]</ref> [[Atreus]],<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 2.104; Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.4.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Pelops 2.4.6] & [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+Epit.+E.2.10&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Pelops E.2.10]; Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#84 84], [https://topostext.org/work/206#88 88], [https://topostext.org/work/206#124 124] & [https://topostext.org/work/206#224 224]; Scholia ad Euripides, ''Orestes'' [https://archive.org/details/scholiaineuripi00schwgoog/page/n128/mode/1up?view=theater 4]</ref> [[Thyestes]],<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 2.104; Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.4.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Pelops 2.4.6] & [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+Epit.+E.2.10&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Pelops E.2.10]; Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#84 84], [https://topostext.org/work/206#86 86], [https://topostext.org/work/206#87 87], [https://topostext.org/work/206#124 124] & [https://topostext.org/work/206#246 246]; Scholia ad Euripides, ''Orestes'' [https://archive.org/details/scholiaineuripi00schwgoog/page/n128/mode/1up?view=theater 4]</ref> [[Copreus of Elis|Copreus]],<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.5.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Pelops 2.5.1]</ref> [[Hippalcimus]]<ref>Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#14.4 14]</ref> ([[Hippalcus]],<ref>Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#84 84]</ref> Hippalcmus<ref name="ReferenceA">Scholia ad Euripides, ''Orestes'' [https://archive.org/details/scholiaineuripi00schwgoog/page/n128/mode/1up?view=theater 4]; ad Pindar, ''Olympian Odes'' 1.144cโe</ref>), [[Sciron]],<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+Epit.+E.1.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Pelops E.1.2]</ref> [[Sicyon (mythology)|Sicyon]],<ref>Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.6.5&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Pelops 2.6.5] with [[Ibycus]] as the authority</ref> [[Epidaurus (mythology)|Epidaurus]],<ref>Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.2.26.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Pelops 2.26.2] as what [[Ancient Elis|Eleans]] claims</ref> [[Cleones]]<ref>Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.15.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Pelops 2.15.1]; Scholia on Euripides, ''Orestes'' [https://archive.org/details/scholiaineuripi00schwgoog/page/n128/mode/1up?view=theater 4]</ref> ([[Cleonymus (mythology)|Cleonymus]]),<ref>Acusilus, fr. 3; Pherecydes, fr. 20</ref> [[Letreus]],<ref>Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+6.22.8&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Pelops 6.22.8]</ref> [[Dyspontos]],<ref>Tryphon, fr. 87 Velsen ap. [[Stephanus of Byzantium]], s.v. [https://topostext.org/work/241#D245.12 ''Dyspontion (ฮฯ ฯฯฯฮฝฯฮนฮฟฮฝ)'']</ref> Pelops the younger,<ref name="ReferenceB">Scholia ad Pindar, ''Olympian Odes'' 1.144cโe</ref> [[Argeus (Greek myth)|Argeius]],<ref>Scholia ad Homer, ''[[Odyssey]]'' [https://archive.org/details/scholiagraecain07dindgoog/page/170/mode/1up?view=theater 4.10] & [https://archive.org/details/scholiagraecain07dindgoog/page/173/mode/1up?view=theater 22]; ad Euripides, ''Orestes'' [https://archive.org/details/scholiaineuripi00schwgoog/page/n128/mode/1up?view=theater 4]; Pherecydes, fr. 132</ref> [[Dias (mythology)|Dias]],<ref name="ReferenceA" /> [[Eleius|Aelius]], [[Corinthus]], [[Cynosurus (mythology)|Cynosurus]] and [[Hippasus (mythology)|Hippasus]].<ref>Scholia ad Euripides, ''Orestes'' [https://archive.org/details/scholiaineuripi00schwgoog/page/n128/mode/1up?view=theater 4]</ref> Four of their daughters married into the House of [[Perseus]]: [[Astydameia]] (who married [[Alcaeus (mythology)|Alcaeus]]),<ref name="ReferenceC">Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.2.4.5&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Pelops 2.4.5]</ref> [[Nicippe]] (who married [[Sthenelus]]),<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.2.4.5&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Pelops 2.4.5]; Scholia ad Euripides, ''Orestes'' [https://archive.org/details/scholiaineuripi00schwgoog/page/n128/mode/1up?view=theater 4]</ref> [[Lysidice (daughter of Pelops and Hippodamia)|Lysidice]] (who married [[Mestor]]),<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.2.4.5&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Pelops 2.4.5]; Plutarch, ''Theseus'' 7.1; Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+8.14.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Pelops 8.14.2]; Scholia ad Euripides, ''Orestes'' [https://archive.org/details/scholiaineuripi00schwgoog/page/n128/mode/1up?view=theater 4]</ref> and [[Eurydice of Mycenae|Eurydice]] (who married [[Electryon]]).<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4B*.html#9.1 4.9.1]</ref> Another daughter of Pelops, [[Mytilene (mythology)|Mytilene]] was called the mother of [[Myton (mythology)|Myton]] by [[Poseidon]].<ref name="Stephanus">Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/241#M465.5 Mytilฤnฤ (ฮฯ ฯฮนฮปฮฎฮฝฮท)]''</ref> By the nymph [[Axioche]] ({{lang|grc|แผฮพฮนฯฯฮท}})<ref>Scholia ad Euripides, ''Orestes'' [https://archive.org/details/scholiaineuripi00schwgoog/page/n128/mode/1up?view=theater 4]; ad Pindar, ''Olympian Ode'' 1.144</ref> or Danais<ref>[[Pseudo-Plutarch]], ''Parallela minora'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plut.+Para.+33&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0219:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Pelops 33]</ref> Pelops was father of [[Chrysippus of Elis|Chrysippus]]. The latter was also called the son of Hippodamia and brother of [[Pleisthenes]] who was sometimes called the son of Pelops by another woman.<ref name="ReferenceB"/> {| class="wikitable" |+<big>Comparative table of Pelops' family</big> ! rowspan="3" |'''Relation''' ! rowspan="3" |Names ! colspan="25" |Sources |- | rowspan="2" |''Tyrt.'' | colspan="2" |''Homer'' | rowspan="2" |''Cyp.'' | rowspan="2" |''(Sch. on)'' ''Pher.'' | rowspan="2" |''Sim.'' | rowspan="2" |''Acus.'' | colspan="4" |''Pindar'' | colspan="3" |''Euripides'' | rowspan="2" |''Dio.'' | rowspan="2" |''Part.'' | colspan="2" rowspan="2" |''Apd.'' | colspan="2" rowspan="2" |''Plu.'' | colspan="2" rowspan="2" |''Hyg.'' | rowspan="2" |''Pau.'' | rowspan="2" |''Steph.'' | rowspan="2" |''Tzet.'' |- | ''-'' |''Sch.'' | ''-'' | colspan="3" |''Sch.'' |''-'' | colspan="2" |''Sch.'' |- | rowspan="6" |''Parents'' |Tantalus |โ | | |โ | |โ | |โ | colspan="3" rowspan="6" | | | | | | | colspan="2" rowspan="6" | | colspan="2" rowspan="6" | |โ | | | | |- |Hermes and Calyce | | |โ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- |Tantalus and Clytia | | | | |โ | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- |Tantalus and Eurythemiste | | | | | | | | | |โ | | | | | | | | |- |Tantalus and Euryanassa | | | | | | | | | |โ | | | | | | | |โ |- |Tantalus and Dione | | | | | | | | | | | | | |โ | | | | |- | rowspan="4" |''Wife'' |Hippodamia | | | | | | | | | |โ | | | | | | |โ | |โ | |โ | | | | |- |Dia | | | | | | | | |โ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- |Axioche | | | | | | | | | | |โ | | |โ | | | | | | | | | | | |- |Danais | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |โ | | | | | |- | rowspan="26" |''Sons'' |Atreus | |โ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |โ | |โ | |โ | | | | |- |Thyestes | |โ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |โ | |โ | |โ | | | | |- |Argeius | | |โ | |โ | | | | | | | |โ | | | | | | | | | | | | |- |Cleonymus or | | | | |โ | |โ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- |Cleones | | | | | | | | | | | | |โ | | | | | | | | | |โ | | |- |Pittheus | | | | | | | | |โ | | |โ |โ | | | |โ | |โ | | | |โ | | |- |Alcathous | | | | | | | | | |โ | | |โ | | | | |โ | | | | |โ | | |- |Troezen | | | | | | | | | | | | |โ | | | | | | | | | |โ | | |- |Hippalcmus or | | | | | | | | | |โ | | |โ | | | | | | | | | | | | |- |Pelops the Younger | | | | | | | | | |โ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- |Dias | | | | | | | | | |โ | | |โ | | | | | | | | | | | | |- |(A)Eleius | | | | | | | | | | | | |โ | | | | | | | | | | | | |- |Corinthus | | | | | | | | | | | | |โ | | | | | | | | | | | | |- |Cynosurus | | | | | | | | | | | | |โ | | | | | | | | | | | | |- |Hippasus | | | | | | | | | | | | |โ | | | | | | | | | | | | |- |Dimoetes | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |?โ | | | | | | | | | |- |Copreus | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |โ | | | | | | | |- |Sciron | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |โ | | | | | | | |- |Hippalcus or | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |โ | | | | |- |Hippalcimus | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |โ | | | | |- |Sicyon | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |โ | | |- |Epidaurus | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |โ | | |- |Letreus | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |โ | | |- |Dyspontos | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |โ | |- |Chrysippus | | | | | | | | | |โ |โ | | |โ | | | |โ | |โ | |โ | | | |- |Pleisthenes | | | | | | | | | |โ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- | rowspan="5" |''Daughters'' |Eurydice | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |โ | | | | | | | | | | |- |Lysidice | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |โ |โ | | | |โ | | |- |Astydamia | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |โ | | | | | | | |- |Nicippe | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |โ | | | | | | | |- |Mytilene | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |โ | |}
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