It is not necessary to know the location of every city-state in the Peloponnese, mainland Greece, and the Troad, nor every cousin and aunt in the great families that ruled there and which were to play prominent parts in the drama to come, but some are very much worth our time and trouble. The royal house of Troy, Priam and Hecuba and their children, for example. Telamon and Peleus, and their offspring, are important too. And so is the house of Tantalus, which, down through Pelops to his sons and their sons, casts a shadow over the whole history of the Trojan War and its aftermath. The curse on
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