Pelops
Πέλοψ
The king who was cooked by his father and brought back to life.
Tantalus cooked his own son and served him to test the gods; they saw through it and restored him to life.
Only Demeter, lost in grief, unknowingly ate a bite of his shoulder, so the missing piece was replaced with ivory.
He won Hippodamia by winning a chariot race, but betrayed the charioteer who helped him and was cursed — a curse that runs through the entire house of Atreus.
The Peloponnese means "island of Pelops."
SourcesPindar, Olympian Odes · Apollodorus, Library