Ch. 15: The Line of Tantalos
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♠ Cho 503 – Aischylos, Choephoroi
and let not this seed of Pelops’ line be blotted out Greek Text
♠ Aias 1291-94 – Sophokles, Aias
Are you not aware of the fact that your father’s father Pelops long ago was a barbarian, a Phrygian? That Atreus, your own begetter, set before his brother a most unholy feast made from the flesh of his brother’s children? Greek Text
♠ Ibykos 308 – Poetae Melici Graeci, p. 157 ed. D. L. Page. Oxford 1962.
♠ Hes fr 224 MW – Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) – Fragmenta Hesiodea, p. 111, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.
Pausanias ii. 6. 5 (about the father of Sikyon)
Indeed Hesiod…made Sikyon the son of Erechtheus. (Transl. Aaron J. Ivey).
♠ Pherekydes 3F20 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 66, ed. F. Jacoby. 2 nd ed. Leiden 1957.
♠ Pherekydes 3F132 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 94, ed. F. Jacoby. 2 nd ed. Leiden 1957.
♠ Theog 773-74 – Theognid – Iambi et Elegi Graeci 1, p. 211, ed. M.L. West. Oxford 1971.
♠ Med 683-84 – Euripides, Medea
Aegeus
There is a man named Pittheus, king of Trozen.
Medea
The son of Pelops and a man most pious, they say. Greek Text
♠ Hkld 207 – Euripides, Herakleidai
Pittheus was son of Pelops, and from his loins came Aethra, and from her was begotten your father Theseus. Greek Text
♠ ApE 2.10 – Apollodoros, Epitome
The sons of Pelops were Pittheus, Atreus, Thyestes, and others. Greek Text
♠ Σ Ol 1.144 – Scholia to Pindar, Olympian Odes – Scholia vetera in Pindari carmina, Scholia in Olympionicas, Vol. 1, pp. 47-48, ed. A.B Drachman. Leipzig 1903.
♠ Σ Or 4 – Scholia to Euripides, Orestes – Scholia in Euripidem 1, pp. 95-96, ed. E. Schwartz. Berlin 1887.
♠ ApE 2.10 – Apollodoros, Epitome
See above
♠ Fab 85 – Hyginus, Fabulae
CHRYSIPPUS: Laius, son of Labdacus, carried of Chrysippus, illegitimate son of Pelops, at the Nemean games because of his exceeding beauty. Pelops made war and recovered him. At the instigation of their mother Hippodamia, Atreus and Thyestes killed him. When Pelops blamed Hippodamia, she killed herself. Latin Text
♠ Thouk 1.9.2 – Thoukydides, Historiae
Eurystheus had been killed in Attica by the Heraclids. Atreus was his mother’s brother; and to the hands of his relation, who had left his father on account of the death of Chrysippus, Eurystheus, when he set out on his expedition, had committed Mycenae and the government. Greek Text
See Early Greek Myth, Chapter 14: Thebes, Laios p. 489
♠ Hellanikos 4F157 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 144, ed. F. Jacoby. 2 nd ed. Leiden 1957.
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Edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, April 2024.
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