Pelops

First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 1 · Part 2

Pelops arrived from Asia among a needy population with vast wealth and acquired power among the local people; though a stranger, he gave the country its name. The power of his descendants later became greater than that of the descendants of Perseus, and Agamemnon succeeded to it.

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Life events

• Pelops arrived with vast wealth and acquired power among the local population.(Book 1 · Chapter 1 · Part 2 · 📍 Asia)
  • “First of all Pelops, arriving among a needy population from Asia with vast wealth, acquired such power that, stranger though he was, the country was called after him;”

Book 1 · Chapter 1 · Part 2

• with Agamemnon (Agamemnon succeeded to the power of Pelops's descendants.) “And so the power of the descendants of Pelops came to be greater than that of the descendants of Perseus. To all this Agamemnon succeeded.”
• with Agamemnon (Agamemnon succeeded to the power of Pelops's descendants.) “And so the power of the descendants of Pelops came to be greater than that of the descendants of Perseus. To all this Agamemnon succeeded.”

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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.