THE PELOPIDS.
Misfortunes and celebrity of the Pelopids.—Pelops—eponym of
Peloponnêsus.—Deduction of the sceptre of Pelops.—Kingly
attributes of the family.—Homeric Pelops.—Lydia, Pisa, etc.,
post-Homeric additions.—Tantalus.—Niobê.—Pelops and Œnomaus,
king of Pisa.—Chariot victory of Pelops—his principality at
Pisa.—Atreus, Thyestês, Chrysippus.—Family horrors among the
Pelopids.—Agamemnôn and Menelaus.—Orestês.—The goddess Hêrê and
Mykênæ.—Legendary importance of Mykênæ.—Its decline coincident
with the rise of Argos and Sparta.—Agamemnôn and Orestês
transferred to Sparta. 153-167