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HIPPODAMEA MEANS HORSE TAMER, WHICH IS I WOULD SUGGEST A VERY NICE NAME FOR A GIRL WHO RIDES HORSES.
WELL, AT ANY RATE HIPPODAMEA IS THEIR ONLY CHILD.
SO PELOPS MARRIES HIPPODAMEA BUT THIS IS ANCIENT GREECE.
cicero.missouristate.edu /myth/transHTML/33.htm   (3903 words)

  
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The king dit not want his daughter to marry (legend has it that he loved her himself, and others that he would be killed by the son of his daughter).
His daughter Hippodamea was sure she would be a spinster for the rest of her life, but the next suitor was the hero Pelops.
A chariot race seemed an easy challenge to a man who had overcome greater dangers: when Pelops was only a child his father Tantalus cooked him in a stew, then served him to the Olympian gods, for he was trying to trick the immortals into eating human flesh unknowingly.
www.zeugmaweb.com /zeugma/english/dictionary-o.htm   (2383 words)

  
 A FATEFUL CHARIOT RACE: The STORY of PELOPS and OENOMAUS
At Olympia, not far from Pisa, he founded the Olympic Games, holding there its first chariot race -- either to thank the gods for his victory over Oenomaus, or as a funeral game to honor him and keep his spirit at bay.
Hippodamea, too, created a contest at Olympia to commemorate her husband's victory: the Heraia, the footrace for girls.
For betraying the traitorous charioteer Myrtilus, to appease his spirit Pelops built a memorial to him at Olympia's hippodrome, its racetrack for horse- and chariot-races.
www.ancientsites.com /aw/Article/682125   (1981 words)

  
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Revived by gods, he later won his bride Hippodamea by a nasty trick in the chariot race, ruled over Peloponnesus and sired Atreus and Thyestes.
Wife of Pelops, won by treachery in the chariot race.
Son of Ares, father of Hippodamea, whose suitors he challenged for an unfair chariot race.
mason.gmu.edu /~oarans/myth-data.html   (3997 words)

  
 A FATEFUL CHARIOT RACE: The STORY of PELOPS and OENOMAUS
At Olympia, not far from Pisa, he founded the Olympic Games, holding there its first chariot race -- either to thank the gods for his victory over Oenomaus, or as a funeral game to honor him and keep his spirit at bay.
Hippodamea, too, created a contest at Olympia to commemorate her husband's victory: the Heraia, the footrace for girls.
For betraying the traitorous charioteer Myrtilus, to appease his spirit Pelops built a momument/memorial to him at Olympia's hippodrome, its racetrack for horse- and chariot-races.
www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/602483   (1808 words)

  
 HIPPODAMIA Articles Hippodamia, also Hippodamea, was a
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Hippodamia, also Hippodamea, was a daughter of King Oenomaus and mother of Thyestes, Atreus, and Pittheus, Alcathous by Pelops.
Oenamaus had pursued thirteen suitors of Hippodamia and killed them all after beating them in a chariot race.
www.amazines.com /Hippodamia_related.html   (562 words)

  
 Marriages of the Gods
This really helped me as I have been getting confused as to everyone’s place in mythology.
Hippodamea’s wedding is another one that I would like to focus on as the female guests were almost abducted by the centaurs.
This will add a little twist to the whole “wedding ceremony.” This web site tells of how many of her suitors were killed by being beaten in chariot races.
faculty-staff.ou.edu /M/Erika.D.Mitchell-Deluca-1/home.html   (700 words)

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