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THE GREEK HEROES 103 Pelops: Ovid, Met. vi. 403 sq. ; Vergil, Geor. iii. 7; Hyginus, Fab. Ixxxiii., Ixxxvi.-lxxxviii. Hippodamia (Daughter of Oenomatis) : Ovid, Her. viii. 70 ; Hyginus, Fab. Ixxxiv. Oenomaus : Ovid, Ibis 365 sq. ; Hyginus, Fab. Ixxxiv. Thyestes: Ovid, Ars Amat. i. 327; Hyginus, Fab. Ixxxvi., Ixxxviii. Aegisthus : Ovid, Rem. Amor. 161 ; Hyginus, Fab. Ixxxvii. Agamemnon : Homer, II. passim ; Aeschylus, Agamemnon ; Sophocles, Electra ; Euripides, Orestes ; Ovid, Met. xv. 855 ; Horace, Od. iv. 9, 25 ; Hyginus, Fab. xcvii. Menelaiis : Homer, II. passim ; Ovid, Ars Amat. ii. 359 ; Vergil, Aen. vi. 525 ; Hyginus, Fab. cxviii. ; Shak., King Henry VI. pt. iii. ii. 2, 147 ; Troilus and Cressida Prol. 9. Paris: Homer, II. passim; Ovid, Epis. v., xv., xvi. ; Vergil, Eel. ii. 61, Aen. i. 27 ; Hyginus, Fab. xci., xcii. Helen: Homer, II. passim, Od. iv. passim; Euripides, Helen ; Vergil, Aen. vii. 364 ; Hyginus, Fab. Ixxix ; Shak., King Henry VI. pt. iii. ii. 2, 146, Troilus and Cressida Prol. 9. Iphigenia : Euripides, Iphigenia at Tauris, Iphigenia at Aulis ; Ovid, Met. xii. 31, Ex Pont. iii. ii. 62 ; Hyginus, Fab. xcviii., cxx. Orestes : Aeschylus, Choephori ; Euripides, Orestes, Iphigenia ; Ovid, Ex Pont. iii. ii. 69 s#., Her. viii. ; Hyginus, Fab. cxix. Hermione : Homer, Od. iv. 14 ; Ovid, Her. viii. 3. CORINTHIAN LEGENDS 132. The relations were intimate between Argos and Corinth, which, in consequence of its situation, developed very early into an important commercial town, and was especially influenced by Phoenicia. As early as the Iliad we find mention of the crafty, covetous Sisyphus, ruler of Ephyra, i.e. the Acrocorinth, who later sank down to the level of a mere arithmetician and intriguer, the type and copy of the average Corinthian merchant. Because he had offended Zeus he was condemned in the lower world to keep eternally rolling a rock up a steep hillside, though it always rolled down again as soon