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Pelops de Lydie, King of Pisa
- Preferred Name: Pelops de Lydie, King of Pisa
- Gender: M
- FSID: G7S8-BJ1
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Roy de Pise et de Mycènes
- LifeSketch: with note: Description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelops
- Birth: 1400 BC in Asgard at LATI: N0.6513 LONG: E0.3861
- Death: ABT 1350 BC in Arkadia, Greece at LATI: N7.4879 LONG: E2.3018
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: (King) of PISA, LYDIA and/or MYCENE, créateur des jeux Olympiques De Grece
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
In Greek mythology, Pelops (/ˈpiːlɒps, ˈpɛlɒps/; Greek: Πέλοψ) was king of Pisa in the Peloponnesus region (Πελοπόννησος, lit. "Pelops' Island"). His father, Tantalus, was the founder of the House of Atreus through Pelops's son of that name.
He was venerated at Olympia, where his cult developed into the founding myth of the Olympic Games, the most important expression of unity, not only for the people of Peloponnesus, but for all Hellenes. At the sanctuary at Olympia, chthonic night-time libations were offered each time to "dark-faced" Pelops in his sacrificial pit (bothros) before they were offered in the following daylight to the sky-god Zeus (Burkert 1983:96).
Pelops was a son of Tantalus and either Dione, Euryanassa, Eurythemista, or Clytia. In some accounts, he was called a bastard son of Tantalus while others named his parents as Atlas and the nymph Linos. Others would make Pelops the son of Hermes and Calyce while another says that he was an Achaean from Olenus.
Of Phrygian or Lydian birth, he departed his homeland for Greece, and won the crown of Pisa or Olympia from King Oenomaus in a chariot race, then married Oenomaus's daughter, Hippodamia.
Pelops and Hippodamia had numerous children. Their sons include Pittheus (or his mother was Dia), Troezen, Alcathous, Dimoetes, Atreus, Thyestes, Copreus, Hippalcimus, (Hippalcus, Hippalcmus), Sciron, Sicyon, Epidaurus, Cleones, (Cleonymus), Letreus, Dyspontos, Pelops the younger, Argeius, Dias, Aelius, Corinthus, Cynosurus and Hippasus. Four of their daughters married into the House of Perseus: Astydameia (who married Alcaeus), Nicippe (who married Sthenelus), Lysidice (who married Mestor), and Eurydice (who married Electryon). Another daughter of Pelops, Mytilene was called the mother of Myton by Poseidon.
By the nymph Axioche (Ἀξιόχη) or Danais or Astyoche, Pelops was father of Chrysippus. The latter was also called the son of Hippodamia and brother of Pleisthenes who was sometimes called the son of Pelops by another woman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelops
=== https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelops ===
Burkert, Walter (1983). "Pelops at Olympia". Homo Necans. University of California Press. pp. 93–103.Kerenyi, Karl (1959). The Heroes of the Greeks. New York/London: Thames and Hudson.Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). "Pelops"
=== https://fabpedigree.com/s046/f906319.htm ===
https://fabpedigree.com/s046/f906319.htm
Family 1: Axioche Danais,
Family 2: Hippodamia of Pisa, b. 1400 BC in Dardania, Phrygia, NW, Turkey d. in Ancient Troy, Greece
- Atreus King of Mycenae , b. in Sipylos, Lydia d. 1250 BC in Mycenae, Greece
- Ne d'Argos De Grece,
- Astydamia II of Pisa, b. in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy d. DECEASED
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