The east pediment of the temple of Zeus at Olympia

            Pausanias identifies the subject of the east pediment: 
the preparations for the chariot race between Pelops, who gave his name to the Peloponnese, and Oinomaos, king of Pisa, for the hand of Oinomaos's 
daughter, Hippodameia . 

The basic elements of the myth can be summarized as follows:
 Oinomaos had invited suitors to vie for Hippodameia by competing with him in a chariot race. 
Thirteen had made the 
attempt and failed, costing them their heads.Pelops was the fourteenth to compete, and he succeeded, winning both the hand of Hippodameia and the kingdom of Oinomaos.
 
Differing accounts of how Pelops won are preserved in written 
sources, from which two distinctive variants emerge.
 The "divine favor" version claims that Pelops won with help from Poseidon, his erstwhile 
lover, who provided Pelops with special, infallible, winged horses. 

The earliest preserved written source for this version of the myth is Pindar, Olympian 1, composed ca. 476 B.c.15 The "cheating" version maintains that Pelops bribed Oinomaoss charioteer to substitute wax for the metal linchpins of 
Oinomaoss chariot, so that, when the race began, the chariot fell apart 
and Pelops won.
 The charioteer subsequently threw himself, or was 
pushed, off a cliff and, as he fell, he called down a curse on the house of Pelopsthe famous curse of the house of Atreus, one of Pelops's descen 
dants. Pherekydes, provides the first attestation of this version of the myth, though it may have existed prior to this 
date. 


Pelops is often credited with founding the Olympic games, which, 
according to legend, were instigated by this chariot race 
   

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