Mount Sipylus
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Mount Spil, also known as Mount Sipylus, is a mountain in Manisa Province, Turkey.
The "Weeping Rock" associated with Niobe on Mount Sipylus
Pelops
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In Greek mythology, Pelops was king of Pisa in the Peloponnesus region. He was the son of Tantalus and the father of Atreus.
Mount Sipylus
…afterwards the gods gave his name to the mountain. The same Tantalus is famed throughout Greek mythology thanks to the accounts that he had cut up his son Pelops and served him up as food for the gods. His son Pelops is said to have later migrated to the Peloponnese, named after him, and to have founded a kingdom…
Roman mosaic with Pelops and Hippodamia, kept in the D. Diogo de Sousa Museum in Braga, Portugal.
Pelops and Hippodamia racing in a bas-relief (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Remains of the Pelopion in Olympia
"Throne of Pelops" at Yarıkkaya locality in Mount Sipylus