CLAS 1P97 Lecture 2: Lecture 2
17 Jan 2017
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Peloponnese - elis: pelops goes on a quest to marry the princess hippodameia, pelops decides he wants to be a hero unlike perseus who was chosen by the gods. Oenomaus and pelops: oenomaus will kill any suitor who loses to him in a chariot race, the dead mans head is then nailed over his palace door. Pelops, hippodameia and myrtilus: pelops had the horses of poseidon but he was worried and bribed oenomaus" charioteer. Myrtilus: if myrtulus helps he can sleep with hippodameis on the first night after her marriage to pelops. Curse of myrtilus (myrtilos), son of hermes: pelops kills him instead of letting him have hippodameia. The island of pelops and the sea of myrtilos : pelops conquers the peloponnesos, aetiology - an explanatory myth. Olympia: games in honour of zeus and hera, first shrine to hermes, pelops wants to placate the gods.
