Acerbo, Stefano2025-06-262025-06-262022Acerbo, Stefano. «The εὐνοµώτατος ἔρανος in Pindar O. 1.25-27 and the Myth of Pelops: A Reassessment». Mnemosyne, vol. 75, n.o 2, diciembre de 2020, pp. 211-38. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1163/1568525X-BJA10057.0026-707410.1163/1568525X-bja10057https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/121899This article has been written in the context of the project “Transformaciones de los mitos griegos: parodia y racionalización” (PID2019-104998GB-I00).he reference to Pelops emerging from the cauldron in verses 25-27 of Pindar O. 1 is one of the most enigmatic passages in the ode. Scholars have regarded it as an allusion to the tale of a cannibalistic banquet or as a new story invented by Pindar himself, but both of these interpretations fail to satisfy. Many of the problems caused by this passage derive from the evidence used to reconstruct pre-Pindaric traditions. A second boiling to restore Pelops, preserved only in a scholium to O. 1, is an «ad hoc» interpretation of the annotator. Based on evidence provided by Apollodorus the mythographer, a different version of this episode may be inferred, whereby the cauldron evokes mythical representations, involving rejuvenation and immortality, which can fully account for the enigmatic passage of O. 1.engjournal article1568-525Xhttps://doi.org/10.1163/1568525X-BJA10057https://brill.com/view/journals/mnem/75/2/article-p211_2.xmlopen access821.14PindarImmortalityRejuvenationPelopsApollodorusOlympiaFilología griega5505.10 Filología