Hippodamia

Greek · mortal · heroic age · mortal

Mortal princess of Pisa, daughter of King Oenomaus. Won by Pelops in the lethal chariot-race she helped him win by suborning the charioteer Myrtilus. Queen of the Pelopid house and mother of Atreus, Thyestes, and Anaxibia. Implicated with her sons in the murder of Pelops's favoured bastard Chrysippus, for which she was driven into exile; later honoured at Olympia in the Hippodameion.

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