Hippodamia

Family: Danaid · Role: princess · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.1

Life events

Myrtilus sabotaged Oenomaus’s chariot, causing his death and enabling Pelops to win Hippodamia.(Apollodorus, Epitome 2)
- With: Oenomaus Myrtilus Pelops
- “Accordingly Myrtilus, being in love with her and wishing to gratify her, did not insert the linchpins in the boxes of the wheels, and thus caused Oenomaus to lose the race and to be entangled in the reins and dragged to death; but according to some, he was killed by Pelops. And in dying he cursed Myrtilus, whose treachery he had discovered, praying that he might perish by the hand of Pelops. Pelops, therefore, got Hippodamia”
Pelops threw Myrtilus into the sea after learning he had attempted to rape Hippodamia.(Apollodorus, Epitome 2 · 📍 Myrtoan Sea)
- With: Pelops Myrtilus
- “But when Pelops learned that from her, he threw Myrtilus into the sea, called after him the Myrtoan Sea, at Cape Geraestus ; and Myrtilus, as he was being thrown, uttered curses against the house of Pelops.”

with Polydectes (interaction) “under the pretext of collecting contributions towards a wedding gift for Hippodamia, daughter of Oenomaus.”
parent: Oenomaus “Hippodamia, daughter of Oenomaus”

courtship with Pelops (Pelops courted Hippodamia, who fell in love with him.) “So Pelops also came a-wooing; and when Hippodamia saw his beauty, she conceived a passion for him”
admirer: Myrtilus (Myrtilus was in love with Hippodamia.) “Accordingly Myrtilus, being in love with her and wishing to gratify her”
married with Pelops (Pelops obtained Hippodamia as his wife.) “Pelops, therefore, got Hippodamia”

Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.