Pelops Definition

pēlŏps
noun
The son of Tantalus: he is killed and served to the gods as food by his father, but later is restored to life by them.
Webster's New World

Origin of Pelops

  • Latin from Greek pelios dark pel-1 in Indo-European roots ōps face, eye okw- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Pelops Sentence Examples

  • His kingly office had come to him from Pelops through the blood-stained hands of Atreus and Thyestes, and had brought with it a certain fatality which explained the hostile destiny which pursued him.

  • Tantalus's betrayal of the secrets of the gods refers to the sun unveiling the secrets of heaven; the slaying of Pelops denotes the going-down of the sun, Pelops meaning the "` gray one," an epithet of the gloomy sky in which the last rays of the sun are extinguished.

  • Most of these were free translations from the Greek, his favourite subjects being the legends of the Trojan war and the house of Pelops.

  • Such are the Amazon stories, whose local range was very extensive, and the myths of Memnon and Pelops.

  • Near it lie many remains of a primitive city, and about half a mile east is the rock-seat conjecturally identified with Pausanias' "Throne of Pelops."

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Words Starting With

PPEPEL

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SPSOPS

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