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Pelops

Mortal man

In Greek mythology, Pelops (; Ancient Greek: Πέλοψ, romanized: Pélops) was king of Pisa in the Peloponnesus region (Πελοπόννησος, lit. "Pelops's Island"). He was the son of Tantalus and the father of Atreus.

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Pelops. Cratère avec décor d'Hippodamie, d'Œnomaos et Pélops
Cratère avec décor d'Hippodamie, d'Œnomaos et Pélops · ShonagonImage source ↗CC0

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A. T. Murray, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1924 · Homer, Iliad with an English Translation · CC BY-SA 3.0 US

“ceasing from their clamour. Then among them lord Agamemnon uprose, bearing in his hands the sceptre which Hephaestus had wrought with toil. Hephaestus gave it to king Zeus, son of Cronos, and Zeus gave it to the messenger Argeïphontes; and Hermes, the lord, gave it to Pelops, driver of horses,”
Il. 2.100–104

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Cratère avec décor d'Hippodamie, d'Œnomaos et Pélops - Musée du Louvre AGER LL 41 ; N 2614 ; K 17
Cratère avec décor d'Hippodamie, d'Œnomaos et Pélops - Musée du Louvre AGER LL 41 ; N 2614 ; K 17Artist not recorded · 390 BCDepartment of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities of the Louvre · ПарижInv. LL 41

Cratère avec décor d'Hippodamie, d'Œnomaos et Pélops - Musée du Louvre AGER LL 41 ; N 2614 ; K 17. Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities of the Louvre. CC0. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120450943

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