ATREUS, THYESTES, PITTHEUS (by Hippodameia) (Apollodorus E2.10) ATREUS, THYESTES, ASTYDAMEIA, LYSIDIKE, NIKIPPE (Apollodorus 2.4.5) PITTHEUS, (mother of) ALKMENE (Euripides Heracleidae 204, Euripides Medea 683) 6x sons (by Hippodameia) (Pindar Olympian 1.88) TANTALOS & DIONE (Hyginus Fabulae 83) OFFSPRING TANTALOS & EURYNASSA (Plutarch Parallel Stories 33) TANTALOS (Cypria Frag 12, Pindar Olympian 1.36, Apollodorus E2.2, Lycophron Alexandra 53, Diodorus Siculus 4.73.5, Pausanias 2.22.3 & 2.25.10, Ovid Heroides 17.54, Fulgentius 2.25) His descendants included Herakles, Eurystheus, Theseus, Atreus, Agamemnon and Menelaus. Pelops was one of the most important founding-kings of myth. His rival in the east was King Perseus of Argos, but the two houses formed an alliance with the marriage of the daughters of Pelops to the sons of Perseus. Pelops quickly grew his empire and came to control most of the western Peloponnesos. The dying man called down a curse upon his house which would plague Pelops and his descendants for many generations to come. When Myrtilos demanded his reward, he treacherously cast him off a cliff into the sea. Oinomaos was killed as a result and Pelops seized control of the kingdom. The king would slay his daughter's suitors as he overtook them in a chariot race, so Pelops bribed the charioteer Myrtilos to tamper with the axle. He later travelled across the sea to Greece to compete for the hand of Hippodameia, daughter of King Oinomaos (Oenomaus) of Pisa.
The young Pelops became a lover of the god Poseidon who provided him with a chariot drawn by swift-some say winged-horses. This they replaced with one made of ivory. The Fates collected up his remains and cast them into a boiling cauldron, restoring his form except for his left shoulder which had inadvertently been devoured by the goddess Demeter. Zeus recognised the deception, cast Tantalos into Haides for eternal torment, and had the boy resurrected by the Moirai. His father King Tantalos of Lydia was impious man who, wishing to test the fallibility of the gods, butchered the young Pelops and served him at a feast of the gods. Finally, we will find out how the tall tales have weathered over time with the intellectual breakthroughs in philosophy and psychology and exactly what their lasting legacy looks like today.PELOPS was a king of the Eleian city of Pisa and the eponymous overlord of the western Peloponnesos, the so-called "Island of Pelops". Fact will be separated from the fiction and the stories explored as we discover the legend of Mount Olympus and the Underworld, the divine deities Zeus, Aphrodite, Hera, Hades and Persephone and the great beasts Scylla, Pegasus and Cyclops. It will also look at the influence and impact of the great legends on both the Ancient Greek people and the many great minds that have drawn inspiration from them in the thousands of years since. The Book of Greek Mythology will explore the origins of mythology in Ancient Greece and how the belief systems in Greece shaped their society into one of the greatest empires in history. The tales that have captivated many a mind have served as great moral triumphs and lessons and have highlighted the many pitfalls, imperfections and crucial mistakes of the infamous gods, goddesses and heroes of whom they are based upon. Ncient Greek myths and legends have been told through the written word on the pages of great books, poems, plays and film scripts, the imagery on pottery, artists’ canvasses and sculptures and even through spoken word throughout history.
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