Definitions for Pelops

Pelops Pel·ops

Spelling: [pee-lops, pel-ops]
IPA: /ˈpi lɒps, ˈpɛl ɒps/

Pelops is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in Pelops (elopps).

Definitions for Pelops

noun

  1. Classical Mythology. a son of Tantalus and Dione, slaughtered by his father and served to the Olympians as food; Hermes restored him to life and he later ruled over southern Greece, which was called Peloponnesus after him.

Examples for Pelops

Atreus the son of Pelops succeeds him in the Kingdom of Mycen.

Why, one that was held by right, handed down from Tantalus and Pelops.

The Homeric notices of Pelops are not more liberal than of Tantalus.

Pelops, suspecting his two sons of the crime, banished them from his court.

For a description of the quadrig of Pelops, see Philostratus Imagg.

When the gods restored Pelops to life, Ceres was very sorry for her carelessness and gave him a shoulder of ivory.

Resurrected by the gods, Pelops has a son whom he names Atreus, and Atreus repeats the family curse.

The part was replaced in ivory when Pelops was restored to life.

Pelops, the son of the cruel Tantalus, was a pious and virtuous prince.

He is said to have been the charioteer of Pelops, and to have had the chief command in these parts.

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