Crossword-Solution: HIPPODAMIA
We have 5 clues for the answer “HIPPODAMIA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ATREUS, mother of | 1 answer |
| PEIRITHOUS, wife of | 1 answer |
| PELOPS, wife of | 1 answer |
| PIRITHOUS, wife of | 1 answer |
| THYESTES, mother of | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the
sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the
daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night.
Hint 2 anagram
CAR
Hint 3 another clue
AID WHEN GOING TO COURT
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Sentences with HIPPODAMIA (5)
Heracles then bade the parents call their son Aias after the eagle (_aietos_).] 2002 (return) [ Oenomaus, king of Pisa in Elis, warned by an oracle that he should be killed by his son-in-law, offered his daughter Hippodamia to the man who could defeat him in a chariot race, on condition that the defeated suitors should be slain by him.
Atreus again, for his murder of Chrysippus, and his cruelty to Thyestes, is rightly named Atreus, which, to the eye of the etymologist, is ateros (destructive), ateires (stubborn), atreotos (fearless); and Pelops is o ta pelas oron (he who sees what is near only), because in his eagerness to win Hippodamia, he was unconscious of the remoter consequences which the murder of Myrtilus would entail upon his race.
HERMOGENES: How so? SOCRATES: Because, according to the tradition, he had no forethought or foresight of all the evil which the murder of Myrtilus would entail upon his whole race in remote ages; he saw only what was at hand and immediate,—or in other words, pelas (near), in his eagerness to win Hippodamia by all means for his bride.
For Aethra was daughter of Pittheus, and Alcmena of Lysidice; and Lysidice and Pittheus were brother and sister, children of Hippodamia and Pelpos.
The Centaurs were admitted to the companionship of man, and at the marriage of Pirithous with Hippodamia, they were among the guests.