Editing Pelops (section)

=== Tantalus' savage banquet ===
Pelops' father was [[Tantalus]], king at [[Spil Mount|Mount Sipylus]] in [[Anatolia]]. Wanting to make an offering to the Olympians, Tantalus cut Pelops into pieces and made his flesh into a stew, then served it to the gods. [[Demeter]], deep in grief after the abduction of her daughter [[Persephone]] by [[Hades]], absentmindedly accepted the offering and ate the left shoulder. The other gods sensed the plot, however, and held off from eating of the boy's body. While Tantalus was banished to [[Tartarus]], Pelops was ritually reassembled and brought back to life, his shoulder replaced with one of [[ivory]] made for him by [[Hephaestus]]. Pindar mentioned this tradition in his First Olympian Ode, only to reject it as a malicious invention. Instead, Pindar relates that he was taken by Poseidon as a lover and the story of his death was a rumour spread after his dissapearance by neighbours envious of Tantalus's prosperity.<ref>Pindar, ''Olympian'' 1, 39–52.</ref>

After Pelops's resurrection, [[Poseidon]] took him to [[Mount Olympus|Olympus]], and made him the youth [[apprentice]], teaching him also to drive the divine chariot. Later, Zeus found out about the gods' stolen food and their now revealed secrets, and threw Pelops out of Olympus, angry at his father, Tantalus.