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OENOMAUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 14 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OENOMAUS  , in .

Greek legend, son of
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Ares and Harpinna, king of Pisa in Elis and
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father of Hippodameia . It was predicted that he should be slain by his daughter's
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husband . His father, the
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god Ares-Hippius, gave him winged horses swift as the wind, and Oenomaus promised his daughter to the man who could outstrip him it the chariot
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race, hoping thus to prevent her
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marriage altogether .
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Pelops, by the treachery of Myrtilus, the charioteer of Oenomaus, won the race and married Hippodameia . The defeat of Oenomaus by Pelops, a stranger from
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Asia Minor, points to the
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conquest of native Ares worshippers by immigrants who introduced the new religion of
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Zeus . See Diod . Sic. iv . 73;
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Pausanias vi . 21, and elsewhere; Sophocles, Electra, 504; Hyginus, Fab . 84 . 253 .

Fig . 33 in

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ART represents the preparations for the chariot race .

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