The suitor had to take Hippodamia away in a chariot and race with a head start towards Corinth. However, Oenomaus always caught up to the suitor with his team of horses sired by the wind, and invariably killed the suitor and put his head on display at the door of his palace. Pelops decided to try his luck and sailed from Lydia to Pisa with his golden-winged chariot drawn by tireless horses, a gift from Poseidon. He also paid off Myrtilus, the king's charioteer, promising him the first night in bed with Hippodamia or a sack of gold, in another version.
Myrtilus sabotaged the Oenomaus' chariot, replacing the bronze linchpins with wax, which melted from the heat of the axles as the king raced off. The chariot collapsed, and the reins wound up dragging the king to death.
Pelops refused to give Myrtilus his reward and when he saw him moving to take her, Pelops threw him into the sea. The dying curse of Myrtilus affected Pelops' line for generations to come. Pelops then entered Pisa, became its king and named the land "Peloponnesus", meaning "island of Pelops". He fathered several sons, including Thyestes, the father of Aegisthus, and Atreus, the father of Menelaus and Agamemnon.
Eurystheus had been the king of Mycenae, and when the Heraclids the sons of Heracles killed him in retaliation for his persecution of Heracles, an oracle commanded the Mycenaeans to make a son of Pelops king.
Atreus was the older and the more sensible choice, but Thyestes insisted that the new king should be the one to produce the fleece of a golden lamb. Atreus was delighted with these terms and agreed -- because he had a golden fleece hidden safely away or so he thought. Years earlier, he had promised his best sheep to Artemis as a sacrifice, but when a golden-fleeced sheep appeared among his flocks, he kept the fleece, instead.
His wife, Aerope, knew of this impiety and gave the fleece to Thyestes, her lover. In this way, Thyestes triumphed.
However, Atreus was certain that Zeus wanted him to be king, so he declared that as proof Zeus would make the sun rise in the west and set in the east the next day. When this actually happened, Atreus took the throne and banished Thyestes. Atreus soon discovered his wife's infidelity and planned revenge upon Thyestes. He offered to bury the hatchet and invited him back to Mycenae. When Thyestes returned and was being entertained i.
Atreus asked Thyestes if he knew what he had eaten, and then produced their heads and limbs. Thyestes fled, cursing Atreus' house.
He asked the Delphic oracle how to get revenge, and was told that he must have a child by Pelopia, his own daughter. Leaving Delphi at night, Thyestes saw by the light of a sacrificial fire a girl going into a stream near Sicyon. He raped her, but left his sword behind. He did not know that she was in fact Pelopia, and she did not know who he was. Atreus soon found her while searching for Thyestes, and took her as his new wife, replacing the unfaithful Aerope.
She bore Thyestes' son, but Atreus thought that the boy was his. Atreus named the boy Aegisthus. After many years of searching for Thyestes, Atreus finally sent his two grown sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus, to Delphi to find out where Thyestes was. Thyestes happened to be there, seeking new advice on taking revenge on Atreus, since he couldn't find his daughter more precisely, he didn't know he'd found his daughter.
Agamemnon and Menelaus hauled Thyestes back to Mycenae. Atreus had his other son, Aegisthus, behead Thyestes, but when Aegisthus pulled his sword, Thyestes recognized it as his own sword. Humans are infatuated with wondering about what comes next in the future.
Were people assigned a predetermined role in history, or did they have the free will of controlling what happened next? Paul Atreides, the main protagonist in Dune by Frank Herbert, has the capability to see into the future on account of his dreams.
Another protagonist that has knowledge of what happens in the future is Odysseus from Homer's The Odyssey. Odysseus does not have the ability to see into the future, but he has allies that can. Through the intertextual dialogues, a similar plot progression can be recognized between the science fiction novel and the Homeric poem. Both the poem and the novel both follow the trope of a "Hero's Journey", which is a basic device used by many authors that shows how the story of a hero follows a pattern.
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