Hippodameia
mythological figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
his bride · the girl
in the texts
Iliad
Daughter of Anchises and wife of Alkathoos, described admiringly by the narrator.
he was son-in-law to Anchises, having married his eldest daughter Hippodameia who was the darling of her father and mother, and excelled all her generation in beauty, accomplishments, and understanding, wherefore the bravest man in all Troy had taken her to wife - him did Poseidon lay low by the hand of Idomeneus, blinding his bright eyes and binding his strong limbs in fetters so that he could ne …
Odyssey
A maidservant of Penelope's household named as an attendant she requests.
nevertheless, tell Autonoe and Hippodameia that I want them.
Olympian
Daughter of Oenomaus, won by Pelops in the chariot race and married to him, bearing him six sons.
He overcame the might of Oenomaus, and took the girl as his bride.
But now, from the bow of the Muses who, shooting from afar, send a shower of such arrows of song as these on Zeus of the red lightning-bolt and on the sacred height of Elis, which once the Lydian hero Pelops won as the very fine dowry of Hippodameia.
And when he blossomed with the stature of fair youth, and down darkened his cheek, he turned his thoughts to an available marriage, to win glorious Hippodameia from her father, the lord of Pisa, He drew near to the gray sea, alone in the darkness, and called aloud on the deep-roaring god, skilled with the trident;
Cratylus
Woman whose hand in marriage Pelops sought, motivating the murder of Myrtilus discussed in Pelops's etymology.
Why it is said of him that in murdering Myrtilus he was quite unable to forecast or foresee the ultimate effects upon his whole race, and all the misery with which it was overwhelmed, because he saw only the near at hand and the immediate— that is to say, πέλας (near)—in his eagerness to win by all means the hand of Hippodameia.