Pelopidae
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
tale of the Pelopidae · the race of the Pelopidae
in the texts
Helen
The house/lineage descended from Pelops, Menelaus's family, described as beset by disaster.
After this she so amply recompensed Menelaus for the toils and perils which he had undergone because of her, that when all the race of the Pelopidae had perished and were the victims of irremediable disasters, not only did she free him from these misfortunes but, having made him god instead of mortal, she established him as partner of her house and sharer of her throne forever.
Republic
The lineage of Pelops, whose cursed sufferings form the subject of poetic tales cited as needing theological reinterpretation.
nor again must we permit our youth to hear what Aeschylus says— A god implants the guilty cause in men When he would utterly destroy a house, but if any poets compose a Sorrows of Niobe, the poem that contains these iambics, or a tale of the Pelopidae or of Troy, or anything else of the kind, we must either forbid them to say that these woes are the work of God, or they must devise some such inter …