| A | B |
|---|
| Tantalus | killed his son and fed him to the gods; is punished in Tartarus with eternal hunger and thirst |
| Pelops | conspires with Myrtilus to win Hippodamia and exiles twin sons after they murder their half brother |
| Chryssipus | Kidnapped by Laius and then killed by Atreus and Thyestes to steal the throne |
| Hippodamia | wife of Pelops who urges her sons to kill their half brother to take the throne |
| Atreus | betrayed by his wife and twin, he gets revenge by killing his brother's sons and feeding them to him |
| Thyestes | exiled after betraying his brother, he returns to Argos only to have his sons slaughtered and fed to him |
| Aegysthus | the son of Thyestes and lover of Clytemnestra who plots to kill Agamemnon with her |
| Agamemnon | king of Mycenae who kills his daughter for wind in order to lead the expedition to Troy |
| Menelaus | king of Sparta whose wife's abduction starts the Trojan War |
| Clytemnestra | wife of Agamemnon who murders him in revenge for killing their daughter |
| Helen | most beautiful woman in the world, stolen from Sparta |
| Iphigenia | lured to Aulis with a promise of marrying Achilles, is sacrificed to Artemis for wind |
| Orestes | avenges his father's murder by killing his mother and her lover, seeks shelter from Apollo |
