[pee-lops, pel-ops] 
| Classical Mythology. a son of Tantalus and Dione, slaughtered by his father and served to the Olympians as food; Hermes restored him to life and he later ruled over southern Greece, which was called Peloponnesus after him. |
| Pe·lops (pē'lŏps') n. Greek Mythology The son of Tantalus and father of Atreus. [Latin, from Greek : pelios, dark; see pel-1 in Indo-European roots + ōps, face, eye; see okw- in Indo-European roots.] |
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