sentences:  As Myrtilus died, he cursed Pelops.This was the source of the curse that haunted Hippodamia and Pelops' children Atreus and Thyestes as well as their descendants Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus and Orestes.Walter Burkert notes that though the story of the contest for Hippodamia's hand figures in the Hesiodic "Megalai Ehoiai" and on the chest of Cypselus (ca.