Chrysippus
Greek · scion · heroic age · Recorded classification
Scion-tier favored bastard of Pelops (greek_pelops), murdered by his half-brothers Atreus and Thyestes. Authored as the named-but-absent half-brother supplied by greek_atreus's prose ('Exiled with Thyestes for the killing of their half-brother Chrysippus'). His mother the nymph Axioche and his abductor Laius lack corpus entries and are named rather than wired.
Parentage
- father: PelopsApollod. 3.5.5; Hellanicus FGrHist 4 F 157 (primary)
Powers
- Occasion the curse of the Theban house by his abduction
Epithets
- Χρύσιππος — golden horse / golden-of-horsesname from chrysos 'gold' + hippos 'horse' (primary)
Relations
- father: PelopsApollod. 3.5.5; Hellanicus FGrHist 4 F 157 (primary)
- half sibling: AtreusHalf-brother and one of his two murderers.Thuc. 1.9.2; Hellanicus FGrHist 4 F 157 (primary)
- half sibling: ThyestesHalf-brother and one of his two murderers.Thuc. 1.9.2; Hellanicus FGrHist 4 F 157 (primary)
Sources
- existence: Apollodorus 3.5.5, Epitome 2.10; Hellanicus FGrHist 4 F 157; Thucydides 1.9.2; Aelian Varia Historia 13.5; scholia Euripides Phoenissae 1760 (primary)
- parentage-and-half-brotherhood: Apollodorus 3.5.5; Hellanicus FGrHist 4 F 157; Thucydides 1.9.2 (primary)