Onek’s Reviews > The Archaeology of the Olympics: The Olympics and Other Festivals in Antiquity > Status Update

"Pelops, too, has immortalized himself successfully going through a test of his arete to win Hippodameia. That he achieves this by treachery has been of some concern to modern scholars, whose 20th century standards demand that the rules be kept, but more sensitive scholarship has demonstrated that archaic culture thought differently and that many were the heroes of myth who won by means of trickery."

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