#chrysippos

Apparently, according to Hellanikos of Lesbos, Chrysippos was Pelops's son from a previous marriage rather than an illegitimate child as in the usual tradition. Not sure if that makes the whole intrafamilial strife surrounding him better or worse, since this is one of the accounts where Hippodameia and her sons plot his death so that he will not inherit his father's throne.

chrysippos at the crossroads between the curse of the atreidai and the curse of the labdacids…

„The fashion of making favourites of boys was first introduced among the Greeks from Crete, as Timaeus informs us. But others say that Laius was the originator of this custom, when he was received in hospitality by Pelops; and that he took a great fancy to Pelops' son, Chrysippus, whom he put into his chariot and carried off, and fled with to Thebes. But Praxilla the Sicyonian says that Chrysippus was carried off by Zeus.” (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists 13.79)