person
Pelops
Hero marked by an ivory shoulder, a famed charioteer who won Hippodamia in a deadly race; a hackneyed poetic subject.
Reading notes
- The Aeneid §2.193 Pelops
Ancestor of the Atridae; 'the walls of Pelops' stands for Greece (the Peloponnese).
- The Georgics §3.7 Pelops
The ivory-shouldered charioteer who won Hippodamia; an over-sung subject.