Hippodamia
Hippodamia (English translation: "tamer of horses") is an etymologically derived from the Greek terms hippos ("horse") and damazo ("to tame"). The name is attributed to the following:
- The common North American ladybug genus Hippodamia
- Hippodamia, the wife of Pelops in Greek mythology
- Hippodamia, wife of Pirithous, also in Greek mythology
- asteroid 692 Hippodamia
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Hippodamia (disambiguation)". Image Credit.
Extended Definition: Hippodamia
Hippodamia
Hippodamia (also Hippodamea), was a daughter of King Oenomaus and mother of Thyestes, Atreus, and Pittheus, Alcathous by Pelops. Pelops wanted to marry Hippodamia. Oenamaus had pursued thirteen suitors of Hippodamia and killed them all after beating them in a chariot race. He did this because he loved her himself or, alternatively, because a prophecy claimed he would be killed by her son. Pelops (or alternatively, Hippodamia herself) convinced Myrtilus (by promising him half of Oenomaus kingdom), Oenomaus' charioteer to remove the linchpins attaching the wheels to the chariot. Oenomaus died. Pelops then killed Myrtilus because he didn't want to share the credit for winning the chariot race, or because Myrtilus had attempted to rape Hippodamia. As Myrtilus died, he cursed Pelops. This was the source of the curse that haunted Pelops' descendants, including Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus and Orestes.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Hippodamia". Image Credit.
