Stymphalus was treacherously killed by
Pelops, who, being unable to defeat him at war, pretended to establish friendship with him, only to approach and slay the inadvertent Stymphalus; he then chopped off his limbs and scattered them around. As punishment for Pelops' crime, the gods had Greece suffer from infertility until the pious
Aeacus was asked to pray for relief of the calamity. According to a scholion on
Apollonius of Rhodes'
Argonautica, the Greek historian
Mnaseas considered a Stymphalus and a woman Ornis (literally "bird") to be the parents of a set of daughters, the
Stymphalides, who were killed by Heracles over the fact that they denied him hospitality but received the
Molionidae. == Notes ==