Oenomaus
mythological figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
King Oenomaus
in the texts
Tusculan Disputations
Mythological king, father-in-law figure in the Pelops story.
For of what sort does that man seem to you, sprung of Tantalus, born of Pelops, who once, having got Hippodamia by marriage, her snatched from her father-in-law King Oenomaus —?
Orations
Mythological king whose chariot race against Pelops for his daughter's hand is invoked as contrast.
For it is not Pelops who pursues, nor Oenomaus, nor Myrtilus — the one second in descent from Zeus, the other a son of Hermes — nor is the decision about kingship or a wife or death, but the contest is of slaves over chance money, now defeated, now victorious, ever the same — if he should say this, what will you say?
Iphigenia in Tauris
King of Pisa, father of Hippodamia, killed by Pelops in a chariot contest for his daughter's hand.
an old spear of Pelops, in my father’s house, which he brandished in his hand when he won Hippodamia, the maiden of Pisa, and killed Oenomaus;
Pelops, son of Tantalus, coming to Pisa with swift horses, married Oenomaus’ daughter, and she gave birth to Atreus, whose children are Menelaus and Agamemnon;