Pelops Flashcards
Where was Pelops a king?
Pisa
A shoulder of Ivory…
Pelops
Who gave Pelops a golden chariot drawn by winged steeds?
Poseidon
What god was the father of Myrtilus?
Hermes
Who deliberately neglected to insert the bronze linchpins in the wheels of Oenomaiis’ chariot or else substituted pins of wax?
Myrtilus
Unable to conquer Arcadia, who pretended friendship with its
king, Stymphalus, treacherously murdered him, and scattered his limbs abroad?
pelops
What happened to Mytilus?
Pelops invited him to ride in his chariot and then pushed him into the ocean
Who cursed the descendants of Pelops?
Myrtilus
Out of fear, who instituted the worship of Hermes in the Peloponnesus?
Pelops
Which god purified Pelops for his treachery?
Hephaestus
Whose ghost is said to repeatedly scared the horses there during the Olympic games?
Myrtilus
Who instituted the Heraean games at
Olympia in gratitude to Hera for having brought about her marriage?
Hippodameia
Called by some the father of the Isthmian bandit Sceiron, of the Megarian king Alcathous, and
of Copreus, Eurystheus’ herald…
Pelops
What father of Pittheus…
Pelops
What illegitimate son of Pelops whom Hippodameia hated…
Chrysippus
Who predicted that Troy would not fall to the Greeks until, among other magical objects, a bone of Pelops was brought there from Elis?
Helenus
What fisherman brought up Pelops’s shoulder bone in his net and, on the advice of the Delphic oracle, gave it back to the Eleians?
Dardamenus
Dardamenus, bringing up in his net the bone of what man…
Pelops
