EPISODE FOUR: FATHERS AND SINS - PART ONE: PELOPS

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Thinking about Pelops and his ivory shoulder blade, I put the word “scapula” in the search box of several museum websites and, as often happens, made some discoveries.

PELOPS AND POSEIDON

Pelops entreats his former lover Poseidon (here called by his Roman name, “Neptune”) for a chariot to win the race against Oenomaus.

TANTALUS IN HADES

Read Homer’s description of Tantalus’s punishment in Hades from The Odyssey, Book xi.