Pelops (In Greek mythology

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• PELOPS —    in the Greek mythology the grandson of Zeus and son of Tantalus, who was slain by his father and served up by him at a banquet he gave the gods to test their omniscience, but of the shoulder of which only Demeter in a fit of abstraction… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

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