Mythological figure who challenged Oenomaos to a chariot race in order to marry Oenomaos's daughter, Hippodameia. He succeeded where thirteen previous had failed, but only by cheating. His family suffered misfortune for generations afterwards. The Peloponnese, the central southern part of Greece, is named after him.

In Greek mythology, Pelops (Greek Πέλοψ) (from pelios: dark; and ops: face, eye) was a son of Tantalus and Dione. Of Phrygian or Lydian birth, he departed his homeland for Greece, and won the crown of Pisa (or Olympia) from King Oenomaus. Pelops was credited with numerous children, begotten on his wife Hippodameia, daughter of Oenomaus.

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