Olympian 1.26

comment on Pelops being taken 'out of a purifying cauldron' (καθαροῦ λέβητος) by the goddess of fate, the Moira called Klotho; analysis of the shift in the aetiological emphasis of the myth of the Olympics: although the voice of Pindar rejects the first story (involving cannibalism) as 'false,' the second and 'true' story is begun with a detail from the first (the 'purifying cauldron')