the son of Tantalus, and grandson of Jupiter, was famous in classical fable for the singular events of his life. While still young, he was butchered, boiled, and served up at a feast which his father gave to the gods. Ceres, in a trance of melancholy abstraction, immediately fell to, and made a hearty meal on the cannibal fare. The other divinities, however, discovering the nature of the dish, shrunk from touching it, and in course of time ordered Mercury to restore the mangled body to life. Accordingly, the dead fragments were put into a cauldron. The limbs, under the action of some particular process, resumed their former positions; a shoulder of ivory was substituted for the shoulder of flesh which Ceres had eaten; and the young man came forth alive and entire. In spite of this patched-up constitution, Pelops conducted himself boldly and successfully in his after-career. Becoming a suitor for the hand of Hippodamia, the beautiful daughter of Ænomaus, king of Pisa, he agreed to prosecute his suit on the hard condition that he should either conquer the father in a chariot-race or suffer death. The contest began. By the aid of Neptune, or of Myrtilus, a treacherous servant of the king, he became the victor, and gained both the daughter and the kingdom of Ænomaus. The tomb of Pelops was preserved on the banks of the Alpheus, and a sanctuary was dedicated to him in the grove Altis at Olympia. Atreus and Thyeses were his sons. The Peloponnesus is said to have been named after him.