CLA204H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Buddy Buddy, Golden Fleece, Myrtilus
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Time period where humans + gods intermingled. Tantalus invited the gods to dine with him and he cut up his son pelops, boiled the parts in a pot and served them at the feast to the gods. The gods saw his deception except demeter who ate the flesh, when. Pelops was restored to life, he was given an ivory shoulder (the part she ate) as substitute. Tantalus" punishment; condemned to suffer everlasting thirst and hunger in the underworld. Pindar"s version of myth; poseidon fell in love with pelops and took him up to olympus same as ganymede: pelops prayed to poseidon, his lover before the race for. The god gave him a golden chariot and tireless winged horses. Both have pelops be among the short-lived race of mortals. Pelops won and left with hippodamia and myrtilus: myrtilus thought his prize would be to be able to sleep with.
