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OENOMAUS , in . See also: Greek See also:legend, son of See also:Ares and Harpinna, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Pisa in See also:Elis and See also:father of Hippodameia. It was predicted that he should be slain by his daughter's See also:husband. His father, the See also:god Ares-Hippius, gave him winged horses See also:swift as the See also:wind, and Oenomaus promised his daughter to the See also:man who could outstrip him it the See also:chariot See also:race, hoping thus to prevent her See also:marriage altogether. See also:Pelops, by the treachery of Myrtilus, the charioteer of Oenomaus, won the race and married Hippodameia. The defeat of Oenomaus by Pelops, a stranger from See also:Asia See also:Minor, points to the See also:conquest of native Ares worshippers by immigrants who introduced the new See also:religion of See also:Zeus.
See Diod. Sic. iv. 73; See also:Pausanias vi. 21, and elsewhere; See also:Sophocles, See also:Electra, 504; See also:Hyginus, Fab. 84. 253. Fig. 33 in See also: article GREEK See also:ART represents the preparations for the chariot race.
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