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In [[Greek mythology]], '''Pelopia''' or '''Pelopea''' or '''Pelopeia''' ([[Ancient Greek]]: Πελόπεια) was a name attributed to four individuals:

* Pelopia, a [[Thebes, Greece|Theban]] princess as one of the [[Niobids]], children of King [[Amphion and Zethus|Amphion]] and [[Niobe]], daughter of King [[Tantalus]] of [[Lydia]]. She was slain by [[Artemis]].<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.5.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:chapter=&highlight=Pelopia 3.5.6]; Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA367 p. 367]; [[Pherecydes of Athens|Pherecydes]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC&pg=PA342 fr. 126 Fowler, p. 342] [= ''[[FGrHist]]'' 3 F 126 = Scholia on [[Euripides]], ''[[Phoenician Women]]'' 159].</ref>
*Pelopia, daughter of [[Pelias]], King of [[Iolcus]] by either [[Anaxibia]] or [[Philomache|Phylomache]], daughter of [[Amphion]].<ref>Apollodorus, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.9.10&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:chapter=&highlight=Pelopia 1.9.10]</ref> She appears briefly in the ''[[Argonautica]]'', giving her brother [[Acastus]] a mantle of double fold before he sails off with the [[Argonauts]].<ref>[[Apollonius Rhodius]], [https://topostext.org/work/126#1.317 1.326]</ref> She and her sisters killed their father, having been tricked by [[Medea]] into believing this was needed to rejuvenate him.<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#24 24].</ref>
*Pelopia, mother of [[Cycnus (son of Ares)|Cycnus]] by [[Ares]].<ref>Apollodorus, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.7.7&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:chapter=&highlight=Pelopia 2.7.7]</ref>
*[[Pelopia (daughter of Thyestes)|Pelopia]], daughter of [[Thyestes]] by whom she mothered [[Aegisthus]].<ref>Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#87 87], [https://topostext.org/work/206#88 88] & [https://topostext.org/work/206#243 243]</ref>

==Notes==
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== References ==
* [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
*[[Apollonius of Rhodes|Apollonius Rhodius]], ''Argonautica'' translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853–1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. [https://topostext.org/work/126 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica''. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0227 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Robert Fowler (academic)|Fowler, R. L.]] (2000), ''Early Greek Mythography: Volume 1: Text and Introduction'', Oxford University Press, 2000. {{ISBN|978-0198147404}}. [https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC Google Books].
* [[Robert Fowler (academic)|Fowler, R. L.]] (2013), ''Early Greek Mythography: Volume 2: Commentary'', Oxford University Press, 2013. {{ISBN|978-0-198-14741-1}}. [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ Google Books].
* [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus, Gaius Julius]], ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]

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[[Category:Princesses in Greek mythology]]
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[[Category:Women of Ares]]
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[[Category:Mythology of Argos, Peloponnese]]
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[[Category:Niobids]]

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