Pelops was the son of TANTALUS and the grandson of ZEUS. When he was a boy, his father cut him into pieces, stewed his flesh in a cauldron, and served him as a feast for the gods. The gods detected the trick and restored Pelops to life; a single piece of his shoulder had been eaten by DEMETER; this they replaced with ivory. After his restoration, Pelops was an even more beautiful young man than before; POSEIDON fell in love with him and gave him a winged chariot. Later, Pelops wooed Hippodameia, the daughter of King OENOMAUS of Pisa, who objected to the match. Either he or Hippodameia persuaded Oenomaus’s charioteer Myrtilus to sabotage the king’s pursuing chariot, killing the king. Pelops then killed Myrtilus, but as he died, myrtilus cursed the house of Pelops, blighting the lives of Pelops’ sons ATREUS and THYESTES and his grandsons AGAMEMNON and AEGISTHUS. Pelops subdued the Peloponnesus from Pisa
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