analysis of Pelops’ abduction by Poseidon as underscoring institutional and ritual features of initiation into adulthood: after the boy is abducted, sexually forced, and taken to his divine abductor’s home on Olympus, the young hero receives from Poseidon the gift of a magnificent chariot team, with which he wins the race against Oinomaos, and the hand of Hippodameia, thereby inaugurating a kingship that serves as a model of political power and sovereignty by virtue of being the ideological foundation for the royal Peloponnesian dynasties of Sparta, Argos, and Messene