Chrysippus
(
*Xru/sippos), a son of Pelops by the nymph Axioche or by Danaus (Plut.
Parall. Hist. Gr. et Rom. 33), and accordingly a stepbrother of Alcathous, Atreus, and Thyestes. While still a boy, he was carried off by king Laius of Thebes, who instructed him in driving a chariot. (
Apollod. 3.5.5.)
According to others, he was carried off by Theseus during the contests celebrated by Pelops (
Hygin. Feb. 271); but Pelops recovered him by force of arms. His step-mother Hippodamieia hated him, and induced her solns Atreus and Thyestes to kill him; whereas, according to another tradition, Chrysippus was killed by his either Pelops himself. (
Paus. 6.20.4; Hygin.
Flb. 85; Schol. ad
Thuc. 1.9.)
A second mythical Chrysippus is mentioned by Apollodorus (
2.1.5).
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