comment on a Hellenic myth that Pelops was a Lydian (Λυδοῦ Πέλοπος), who was ousted from his homeland and emigrated to the Peloponnesus; analysis of the myth as an ideological formalization of Spartan connections with Lydia, analogous to the political formalization of those connections in the alliance between the two regions, since Sparta dominated the Peloponnesus and was the foremost of all Hellenic city-states on the Mainland to establish an alliance with Lydia