CLAS 1P97 Lecture 2: What Makes a Hero (continued) & Cretan Myths: Minos
13 Jan 2016
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Pelops had the horses of poseidon but he was worried and bribed oenomaus" charioteer myrtilus. If myrtilus helps, he can sleep with hippodameia on the first night after her marriage to. Pelops kills him instead of letting him have hippodameia. With dying breath, throws a curse on pelops. Pelops conquers the peloponnesos - island of pelops - sea of myrtilos. He is illegitimate - pelops had slept with a slave girl. Chrysippus was kidnapped by laius of thebes (oedipus"s father) but pelops rescued him. Poor relationships with hippodameia and sons, leads to war with thebes. Hippodameia arranges the death of chrysippus by getting her sons to do it. Pelops has kleos (fame) and is seen as a glorious, heroic monarch by outsiders. Agamemnon - pelops" grandson (son of atreus = atreides) Agamemnon has to kill his own daughter to go to the trojan war. Pelops dodges the curse of myrtilus but his descendants don"t.
