Pelops

Family: mythological figures · Role: son of Tantalus · First appears: Fable 44

Fable 44

• parent: Tantalus “while others relate, that at an entertainment which he gave to the Deities, he caused his own son, Pelops, to be served up,”

Fable 65

• child: Alcathoüs “Megara, or Alcathoë, which was founded by Lelex, was almost destroyed by Minos, and was rebuilt by Alcathoüs, the son of Pelops.”
• child: Chrysippus “Alcathoüs, the son of Pelops. He, flying from his father, on being accused of the murder of his brother Chrysippus, retired to the city of Megara”

Fable 75

• child: Pittheus (Pelops is identified as Pittheus’s father.) “I, myself, have seen the spot; for Pittheus sent me into the land of Pelops, once governed by his father, {Pelops}.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.