Oenomaus

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.4

Life events

• Myrtilus sabotaged Oenomaus’s chariot, causing his death and enabling Pelops to win Hippodamia.(Apollodorus, Epitome 2)
  • With: Myrtilus Pelops Hippodamia
  • “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”

Apollodorus, Library 2.4

• child: Hippodamia “Hippodamia, daughter of Oenomaus”

Apollodorus, Library 3.10

• married with Sterope (Pleiad) “Of these, Sterope was married to Oenomaus, and Merope to Sisyphus.”

Apollodorus, Epitome 2

• servant: Myrtilus (Myrtilus served as Oenomaus's charioteer.) “for Myrtilus was charioteer to Oenomaus”
• with Pelops (Pelops succeeded Oenomaus as king.) “he returned to Pisa in Elis and succeeded to the kingdom of Oenomaus”
• with Ares (Ares gave Oenomaus arms and horses.) “For he had arms and horses given him by Ares”
• enemies with Pelops “but according to some, he was killed by Pelops.”

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