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Pindar, Olympian Odes, 1.37-1.94
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nan and among the tables at the last course they divided and ate your flesh. For me it is impossible to call one of the blessed gods a glutton. I stand back from it. Often the lot of evil-speakers is profitlessness. If indeed the watchers of Olympus ever honored a mortal man, [55] that man was Tantalus. But he was not able to digest his great prosperity, and for his greed he gained overpowering ruin, which the Father hung over him: a mighty stone. Always longing to cast it away from his head, he wanders far from the joy of festivity. He has this helpless life of never-ending labor, a fourth toil after three others, because he stole from the gods nectar and ambrosia, with which they had made him immortal, and gave them to his drinking companions. If any man expects that what he does escapes the notice of a god, he is wrong. [65] Because of that the immortals sent the son of Tantalus back again to the swift-doomed race of men. And when he blossomed with the stature of fair youth, and down darkened his cheek, he turned his thoughts to an available marriage, [70] to win glorious Hippodameia from her father, the lord of Pisa. He drew near to the gray sea, alone in the darkness, and called aloud on the deep-roaring god, skilled with the trident; and the god appeared to him, close at hand.
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nan Pelops said to the god, "If the loving gifts of Cyprian Aphrodite result in any gratitude, Poseidon, then restrain the bronze spear of Oenomaus, and speed me in the swiftest chariot to Elis, and bring me to victory. For he has killed thirteen suitors, and postpones the marriage of his daughter. Great danger does not take hold of a coward. Since all men are compelled to die, why should anyone sit stewing an inglorious old age in the darkness, with no share of any fine deeds? As for me, on this contest [85] I will take my stand. May you grant a welcome achievement." So he spoke, and he did not touch on words that were unaccomplished. Honoring him, the god gave him a golden chariot, and horses with untiring wings. He overcame the might of Oenomaus, and took the girl as his bride. She bore six sons, leaders of the people eager for excellence. [90] Now he has a share in splendid blood-sacrifices, resting beside the ford of the Alpheus, where he has his attendant tomb beside the altar that is thronged with many visitors. The fame of Pelops shines from afar in the races of the Olympic festivals, [95] where there are contests for swiftness of foot, and the bold heights of toiling strength. A victor throughout the rest of his life enjoys honeyed calm, so far as contests can bestow it. But at any given time the glory of the present day is the highest one that comes to every mortal man.
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1. Homer, Iliad, 2.100-2.108 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 2.100. /ceasing from their clamour. Then among them lord Agamemnon uprose, bearing in his hands the sceptre which Hephaestus had wrought with toil. Hephaestus gave it to king Zeus, son of Cronos, and Zeus gave it to the messenger Argeïphontes; and Hermes, the lord, gave it to Pelops, driver of horses 2.101. /ceasing from their clamour. Then among them lord Agamemnon uprose, bearing in his hands the sceptre which Hephaestus had wrought with toil. Hephaestus gave it to king Zeus, son of Cronos, and Zeus gave it to the messenger Argeïphontes; and Hermes, the lord, gave it to Pelops, driver of horses 2.102. /ceasing from their clamour. Then among them lord Agamemnon uprose, bearing in his hands the sceptre which Hephaestus had wrought with toil. Hephaestus gave it to king Zeus, son of Cronos, and Zeus gave it to the messenger Argeïphontes; and Hermes, the lord, gave it to Pelops, driver of horses 2.103. /ceasing from their clamour. Then among them lord Agamemnon uprose, bearing in his hands the sceptre which Hephaestus had wrought with toil. Hephaestus gave it to king Zeus, son of Cronos, and Zeus gave it to the messenger Argeïphontes; and Hermes, the lord, gave it to Pelops, driver of horses 2.104. /ceasing from their clamour. Then among them lord Agamemnon uprose, bearing in his hands the sceptre which Hephaestus had wrought with toil. Hephaestus gave it to king Zeus, son of Cronos, and Zeus gave it to the messenger Argeïphontes; and Hermes, the lord, gave it to Pelops, driver of horses 2.105. /and Pelops in turn gave it to Atreus, shepherd of the host; and Atreus at his death left it to Thyestes, rich in flocks, and Thyestes again left it to Agamemnon to bear, that so he might be lord of many isles and of all Argos. 2.106. /and Pelops in turn gave it to Atreus, shepherd of the host; and Atreus at his death left it to Thyestes, rich in flocks, and Thyestes again left it to Agamemnon to bear, that so he might be lord of many isles and of all Argos. 2.107. /and Pelops in turn gave it to Atreus, shepherd of the host; and Atreus at his death left it to Thyestes, rich in flocks, and Thyestes again left it to Agamemnon to bear, that so he might be lord of many isles and of all Argos. 2.108. /and Pelops in turn gave it to Atreus, shepherd of the host; and Atreus at his death left it to Thyestes, rich in flocks, and Thyestes again left it to Agamemnon to bear, that so he might be lord of many isles and of all Argos.
2. Tyrtaeus, Fragments, 2 (7th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE)
3. Pindar, Olympian Odes, 1.24-1.36, 1.38-1.94, 2.78-2.79, 3.6-3.7, 3.36-3.38, 6.14, 7.77-7.80, 9.9, 10.104-10.105, 13.65-13.69 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
4. Pindar, Paeanes, 9.5-9.13 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
5. Aristophanes, The Rich Man, 287 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
6. Euripides, Iphigenia Among The Taurians, 381-391, 380 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
7. Herodotus, Histories, 7.72-7.73 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 7.72. The Paphlagonians in the army had woven helmets on their heads, and small shields and short spears, and also javelins and daggers; they wore their native shoes that reach midway to the knee. The Ligyes and Matieni and Mariandyni and Syrians were equipped like the Paphlagonians. These Syrians are called by the Persians Cappadocians. ,Dotus son of Megasidrus was commander of the Paphlagonians and Matieni, Gobryas son of Darius and Artystone of the Mariandyni and Ligyes and Syrians. 7.73. The Phrygian equipment was very similar to the Paphlagonian, with only a small difference. As the Macedonians say, these Phrygians were called Briges as long as they dwelt in Europe, where they were neighbors of the Macedonians; but when they changed their home to Asia, they changed their name also and were called Phrygians. The Armenians, who are settlers from Phrygia, were armed like the Phrygians. Both these together had as their commander Artochmes, who had married a daughter of Darius.
8. Plato, Republic, 408b (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 408b. even if they did happen for the nonce to drink a posset; but they thought that the life of a man constitutionally sickly and intemperate was of no use to himself or others, and that the art of medicine should not be for such nor should they be given treatment even if they were richer than Midas. Very ingenious fellows, he said, you make out these sons of Asclepius to be.
9. Sophocles, Ajax, 1292 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
10. Sophocles, Antigone, 101-140, 269-270, 293-301, 342, 441-443, 469-472, 511, 582-603, 82, 825, 83-100 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
11. Xenophon, The Persian Expedition, 1.2.13 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
12. Hyginus, Fabulae (Genealogiae), 191 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
13. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 11.90-11.93 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)
14. Strabo, Geography, 1.3.17, 7.7.1, 8.4.4 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 7.7.1. EpirusThese alone, then, of all the tribes that are marked off by the Ister and by the Illyrian and Thracian mountains, deserve to be mentioned, occupying as they do the whole of the Adriatic seaboard beginning at the recess, and also the sea-board that is called the left parts of the Pontus, and extends from the Ister River as far as Byzantium. But there remain to be described the southerly parts of the aforesaid mountainous country and next thereafter the districts that are situated below them, among which are both Greece and the adjacent barbarian country as far as the mountains. Now Hecataeus of Miletus says of the Peloponnesus that before the time of the Greeks it was inhabited by barbarians. Yet one might say that in the ancient times the whole of Greece was a settlement of barbarians, if one reasons from the traditions themselves: Pelops brought over peoples from Phrygia to the Peloponnesus that received its name from him; and Danaus from Egypt; whereas the Dryopes, the Caucones, the Pelasgi, the Leleges, and other such peoples, apportioned among themselves the parts that are inside the isthmus — and also the parts outside, for Attica was once held by the Thracians who came with Eumolpus, Daulis in Phocis by Tereus, Cadmeia by the Phoenicians who came with Cadmus, and Boeotia itself by the Aones and Temmices and Hyantes. According to Pindar, there was a time when the Boeotian tribe was called Syes. Moreover, the barbarian origin of some is indicated by their names — Cecrops, Godrus, Aiclus, Cothus, Drymas, and Crinacus. And even to the present day the Thracians, Illyrians, and Epeirotes live on the flanks of the Greeks (though this was still more the case formerly than now); indeed most of the country that at the present time is indisputably Greece is held by the barbarians — Macedonia and certain parts of Thessaly by the Thracians, and the parts above Acaria and Aitolia by the Thesproti, the Cassopaei, the Amphilochi, the Molossi, and the Athamanes — Epeirotic tribes. 8.4.4. Adjacent to Methone is Acritas, which is the beginning of the Messenian Gulf. But this is also called the Asinaean Gulf, from Asine, which is the first town on the gulf and bears the same name as the Hermionic town. Asine, then, is the beginning of the gulf on the west, while the beginning on the east is formed by a place called Thyrides, which borders on that part of the Laconia of today which is near Cynaethius and Taenarum. Between Asine and Thyrides, beginning at Thyrides, one comes to Oitylus (by some called Baetylus); then to Leuctrum, a colony of the Leuctri in Boeotia; then to Cardamyle, which is situated on a rock fortified by nature; then to Pharae, which borders on Thuria and Gerenia, the place from which Nestor got his epithet Gerenian, it is said, because his life was saved there, as I have said before. In Gerenia is to be seen a sanctuary of Triccaean Asclepius, a reproduction of the one in the Thessalian Tricca. It is said that Pelops, after he had given his sister Niobe in marriage to Amphion, founded Leuctrum, Charadra, and Thalami (now called Boeoti), bringing with him certain colonists from Boeotia. Near Pharae is the mouth of the Nedon River; it flows through Laconia and is a different river from the Neda. It has a notable sanctuary of Athena Nedusia. In Poeaessa, also, there is a sanctuary of Athena Nedusia, named after some place called Nedon, from which Teleclus is said to have colonized Poeaessa and Echeiae and Tragium.
15. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 28.27.92 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
16. Plutarch, Theseus, 3.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
17. Aelian, Varia Historia, 3.18 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
18. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.22.3, 2.26.2 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 2.22.3. Now that the Tantalus is buried here who was the son of Thyestes or Broteas (both accounts are given) and married Clytaemnestra before Agamemnon did, I will not gainsay; but the grave of him who legend says was son of Zeus and Pluto—it is worth seeing—is on Mount Sipylus. I know because I saw it. Moreover, no constraint came upon him to flee from Sipylus, such as afterwards forced Pelops to run away when Ilus the Phrygian launched an army against him. But I must pursue the inquiry no further. The ritual performed at the pit hard by they say was instituted by Nicostratus, a native. Even at the present day they throw into the pit burning torches in honor of the Maid who is daughter of Demeter. 2.26.2. He went to Athens with his people and dwelt there, while Deiphontes and the Argives took possession of Epidauria. These on the death of Temenus seceded from the other Argives; Deiphontes and Hyrnetho through hatred of the sons of Temenus, and the army with them, because it respected Deiphontes and Hyrnetho more than Ceisus and his brothers. Epidaurus, who gave the land its name, was, the Eleans say, a son of Pelops but, according to Argive opinion and the poem the Great Eoeae, A poem attributed to Hesiod. the father of Epidaurus was Argus, son of Zeus, while the Epidaurians maintain that Epidaurus was the child of Apollo.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
achilles	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
achilles and patroklos, as pederasty	Hubbard, A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities (2014) 103
amphiaraus	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
apollo, in myth	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
aristaeus	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
artemis	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
asia, as origin of pelops	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 227, 228
assyria and assyrians	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
athena	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
aulos	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
bacchus	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
belief/disbelief	Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 125, 126
bellerophon	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
boundaries, between mortal and immortal	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
cadmus	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
cassola, f.	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
chiron	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
croesus	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
cyrene	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
darius i	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
delphi	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
diomedes	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
dionysus, and midas	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
dionysus	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
euripides, and myth	Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 125, 126
euripides	Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 125, 126
fictive founder	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 227, 228
fictive founders	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 227
foundation legends, peloponnesus	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 227, 228
foundation legends	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 227
gaia	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
ganymede	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
gods	Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 125, 126
harmonia	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
hebe	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
hecataeus of miletus	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
heracles	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
herodotus, on sovereignty	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
herodotus, sources used by	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
hieron of syracuse	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
homeric scholia	Pamias, Apollodoriana: Ancient Myths, New Crossroads (2017) 60
horace, ὡϲ θεῶι vel sim.	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
horae	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
hymn	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
hyperboreans	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
iamus	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
immortality, in epinician narrative	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
immortalization	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
ino-leucothea	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
isles of the blesses	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
ixion	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
kingship, of midas	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
lydia and lydians, and phrygian symbols	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
marsyas	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
midas, and marsyas	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
midas, and seilenus	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
midas, golden touch of	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
midas, historical record of	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
midas, throne of	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
midas	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
muses	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
music, lydian and phrygian	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
music	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
myth	Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 125, 126
narrative	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
oenomaus	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
olympus	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
paphlagonia	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
pederasty, homeric/early greek	Hubbard, A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities (2014) 103
pederasty, visual representations of	Hubbard, A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities (2014) 105
pegasus	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
peleus	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
peloponnesus, foundation legend	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 227, 228
pelops, as founder	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 227, 228
pelops	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78; Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
perseus	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
pherecydes	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 228
phrygia and phrygians, as home of kingship	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
phrygia and phrygians, dominion of	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
phrygia and phrygians, music of	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
pindar	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 227, 228; Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 125, 126
prayer	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
sakellariou, michael b.	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
seilenus, midas and	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
semele	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
sipylus, mount	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
sources of the bibliotheca	Pamias, Apollodoriana: Ancient Myths, New Crossroads (2017) 60
sparta, pederasty	Hubbard, A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities (2014) 103
symposion, pederasty of'	Hubbard, A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities (2014) 105
tantalus	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78; Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
thetis	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
thucydides	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 228
tlepolemus	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 78
tyrtaeus	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 68
xerxes	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 228