His daughters Lysidice, Astyadamia, and Nicippe, were married off to the sons of Perseus, while his less well-known sons included Alcathous, Pittheus, and Sciron.
His daughters Lysidice, Astyadamia, and Nicippe, were married off to the sons of Perseus, while his less well-known sons included Alcathous, Pittheus, and Sciron. But his most famous boys were those who turned on and killed their bastard half-brother, Chrysippus, [*] after their mother, a former princess of Pisa grew jealous. She had been won by this hero after he replaced the lynchpins of her father, Oenomaus' chariot with wax, waited for him to fall off, and then stabbed him to death. Yet after he took Hippodamia for himself he betrayed and killed his co-conspirator Myrtilus, who then cursed his family. The progenitor of the House of Atreus, FTP, identify this mythological figure who was forever reminded of Demeter's careless hunger with the ivory shoulder he received after his own father, Tanatalus, tried to serve him to the Gods.
His daughters Lysidice, Astyadamia, and Nicippe, were married off to the sons of Perseus, while his less well-known sons included Alcathous, Pittheus, and Sciron.
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