Pelops

Greek · quartigod · heroic age · quartigod

Quartigod (¼ divine, via the demigod Tantalus). Lydian/Phrygian prince butchered and served to the gods by his father, then restored with an ivory shoulder; beloved of Poseidon, who gave him a golden winged chariot. With it — and the bribed charioteer Myrtilus — he won Hippodamia in Oenomaus's deadly bride-race, then drowned Myrtilus, whose curse seeds the doom of the Atreidae. King of Pisa and eponym of the Peloponnese; founding hero of Olympia, his bones kept in the Pelopion. Father of Atreus and Thyestes.

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