sentences:  Pelops became a great king, a local hero, and gave his name to the Peloponnese.Walter Burkert notes that though the story of Hippodamia's abduction figures in the Hesiodic "Catalogue of Women" and on the chest of Cypselus (c. 570 BCE) that was conserved at Olympia, and though preparations for the chariot-race figured in the east pediment of the great temple of Zeus at Olympia, the myth of the chariot race only became important at Olympia with the introduction of chariot racing in the twenty-fifth Olympiad (680 BCE).G.