In Greek mythology, Pelops was son of the Lydian king Tantalus, either by the goddess Dione or by a Pleiad. As a child he was killed and cooked by his father who served his flesh to the gods. The gods restored Pelops to life and his lover, the god Poseidon, presented him with a gift of a wonderful horse. Pelops became very skilled at chariot driving and when Oenomaus, king of Pisa, offered the hand of his daughter, Hippodamia, in marriage to anyone who could beat him in a chariot race - though to lose was to be executed - Pelops entered the race and bribed the king's charioteer Myrtilus to sabotage the king's chariot, resulting in the king crashing and being killed. Pelops married the princess and succeeded her father as king, and murdered Myrtilus by drowning him in the sea, though not before Myrtilus could let forth a curse on Pelops and his descendents with his dying breath. Research Pelops
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