Hippodamia
Ἱπποδάμεια
The woman who became Pelops's wife at the end of a chariot race that cost suitors their lives.
Oenomaus, king of Pisa, set a chariot race for his daughter's suitors. Losing meant death, and the heads of the losers hung on the palace gate.
Before the race, Pelops bribed the king's charioteer Myrtilus to swap the chariot's linchpins for wax. Oenomaus died when his chariot broke apart at full speed.
Her name means "tamer of horses" — a fate to be decided by chariots was written into the name in advance. The curse Myrtilus uttered as he died followed the family down to her son Atreus and grandson Agamemnon.
SourcesApollodorus, Library