#pelopiads

Perhaps we make fun of Perseus having a lot of kids too much.

I wonder if Nicippe was the one to encourage Sthenelus to give Midea to her exiled brothers, not bc she thinks what they did was justified or anything but bc she wanted to give them a new start and redemption for killing Chrysippus, perhaps she also wanted her elderly mother to live her final days in some comfort bc Hippodamia was exiled from her home and hated by her husband, so one could only imagine the grief Nicippe went through when her husband, son, grandsons, half brother AND mother all died and her two brothers whom she tried to give a second chance became more and more evil.

Hesiod talked about Pelops and Perseus’s kids bc of course he did he loves writing about family trees lol