Myrtilus

Family: Greek myth · Role: mythic charioteer · First appears: Sophocles, Electra — Scene 3

Life events

• Myrtilus dies after being hurled from Pelops' chariot.(Sophocles, Electra — Scene 3)
  • With: Pelops
  • “Since, from the golden oar Hurled to the deep afar, Myrtilus sank and slept, Cruelly plucked from that fell chariot-floor,”
• Pelops murders Myrtilus by casting him into the sea, beginning the curse upon his house.(Euripides, Orestes — Scene 7)
  • With: Pelops
  • “Pelops in his car drawn by four horses perpetrated, as he drove, the murder of Myrtilus, by casting him into the sea”

Euripides, Orestes — Scene 7

• enemies with Pelops “Pelops in his car drawn by four horses perpetrated, as he drove, the murder of Myrtilus, by casting him into the sea, hurling him down to the surge of the ocean”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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