| Found in | Work cat.: 2004-480640: Baldarelli, Beatrice. Accius un die vortrojanische Pelopidensage, 2004.
Oxford classical dictionary: "Pelops, father of Atreus, a hero worshipped at Olympia and believed to be eponym of the Peloponnese. As a child, he was killed and served up by his father Tantalus, in order to test his guests the gods. Only Demeter, mourning the loss of her daughter, failed to notice, and ate part of his shoulder; the other gods restored him to life and replaced his shoulder with ivory." He won his wife Hippodamia from her father Oenomaus, who had offered her to any suitor who could carry her off in a chariot and escape his pursuit, but Pelops bribed the father's charioteer to loosen the lynchpins on his master's chariot; he won his bride, but both her father and her father's charioteer were killed, and he was cursed by one or both; he was unaffected by the curse, but his descendants were.
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