alcmene belongs to the pelopid line—her mother lysidice was a daughter of pelops and hippodameia—, and the passages preceding her ehoie also concern pelopids. three of pelops' daughters married sons of perseus: lysidice married electryon, nicippe wed sthenelus, and astydameia wed alcaeus. nicippe and sthenelus' daughter astymedusa married oedipus, and at the funeral games in his honor his son polynices caught the eye of his future wife argeia, the daughter of adrastus. pelops' son atreus was the father of pleisthenes who, contrary to the better known genealogy, was the father of agamemnon and menelaus. their mother was aerope, the daughter of catreus, and their births were reported in the verses directly preceding the ehoie of alcmene.