imitive and irrational allegory. Oenomaus' sexual desire for his daughter can be understood as a primitive need in Freud's theories: his feelings for her reflect Elektra complex. We can also look at Pelop's desire for Hippodamia. He had never seen the woman, just heard of her beauty. He kills her father, and promises Myrtilus sex with her if he helps him win, and then kills him for a promise that he made. Everything that Pelops did was on a sexual, primitive, irrational level.
             Levi Strauss' Structuralist theory can be applied to this myth as well revealing Greek views of good and evil. We see Oenomaus as evil because he holds his daughter in captivity, and Pelops as good because he is the one to save Hippodamia from her father. However, Pelops can be considered evil and Myrtilus to be good because of the promise that Pelops made to Myrtilus: Pelops says that Myrtilu
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