Oenomaus

He overcame the might of Oenomaus, and took the girl as his bride.

Pelops said to the god, “If the loving gifts of Cyprian Aphrodite result in any gratitude, Poseidon, then restrain the bronze spear of Oenomaus, and speed me in the swiftest chariot to Elis, and bring me to victory.

And when he blossomed with the stature of fair youth, and down darkened his cheek, he turned his thoughts to an available marriage, to win glorious Hippodameia from her father, the lord of Pisa, He drew near to the gray sea, alone in the darkness, and called aloud on the deep-roaring god, skilled with the trident;

For of what sort does that man seem to you, sprung of Tantalus, born of Pelops, who once, having got Hippodamia by marriage, her snatched from her father-in-law King Oenomaus —?

For it is not Pelops who pursues, nor Oenomaus, nor Myrtilus — the one second in descent from Zeus, the other a son of Hermes — nor is the decision about kingship or a wife or death, but the contest is of slaves over chance money, now defeated, now victorious, ever the same — if he should say this, what will you say?

an old spear of Pelops, in my father’s house, which he brandished in his hand when he won Hippodamia, the maiden of Pisa, and killed Oenomaus;

Pelops, son of Tantalus, coming to Pisa with swift horses, married Oenomaus’ daughter, and she gave birth to Atreus, whose children are Menelaus and Agamemnon;