In Greek mythology, Chrysippus was

Laius, Chrysippus and Pelops

1) a divine hero of Elis in the Peloponnesus, a young boy, the bastard son of Pelops and the nymph Axioche. He was kidnapped by the Theban Laius, his tutor, who was escorting him to the Nemean Games, where the boy planned to compete. Instead, Laius ran away with him to Thebes and raped him, a crime for which he, his city and his family were later punished by the gods.

He was killed by Atreus and Thyestes, his step-brothers, who cast him into a well. They had been sent by their mother, Hippodamia, who feared Chrysippus would inherit Pelops' throne instead of her sons. Atreus and Thyestes, together with their mother, were banished by Pelops and took refuge in Mycene. There Hippodamia hung herself.

The death of Chrysippus is seen as springing from the curse that Myrtilus placed on Pelops.

Bibliography:

  • Pindar, Olympian Ode, I (476 BC);
  • Apollodorus Library and Epitome 3.5.5 (140 BC);
  • Hyginus, Fables, 85. Chrysippus; 243. Women who Committed Suicide (1st c. AD);
  • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9.5.5-10, 6.20.7 (c. 160 - 176 AD);
  • Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book XIII, 602 (c. 200 AD);
  • Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Greeks, ii, 34, 3 - 5 (150 - 215 AD)

Pausanias 6.20.7

There is within the Altis by the processional entrance the Hippodameium, as it is called, about a quarter of an acre of ground surrounded by a wall. Into it once every year the women may enter, who sacrifice to Hippodameia, and do her honor in other ways. The story is that Hippodameia withdrew to Midea in Argolis, because Pelops was very angry with her over the death of Chrysippus. The Eleans declare that subsequently, because of an oracle, they brought the bones of Hippodameia to Olympia.

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2) a son of Egyptus, husband of Chrysippe:

Source

  • Apollod. 2.1.5


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