Tantalus

Family: Theban · Role: son of Niobe · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.5

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Tantalus)

Life events

• Tantalus was condemned to perpetual hunger and thirst beneath an impending stone.(Apollodorus, Epitome 2 · 📍 Hades)
  • “Tantalus is punished in Hades by having a stone impending over him, by being perpetually in a lake and seeing at his shoulders on either side trees with fruit growing beside the lake.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.5

• child: Niobe “and Amphion married Niobe, daughter of Tantalus, who bore seven sons”
• parent: Niobe “who bore seven sons, Sipylus, Eupinytus, Ismenus, Damasichthon, Agenor, Phaedimus, Tantalus, and the same number of daughters, Ethodaia ( or, as some say, Neaera), Cleodoxa, Astyoche, Phthia, Pelopia, Astycratia, and Ogygia,”
• parent: Amphion “Amphion married Niobe, daughter of Tantalus, who bore seven sons, Sipylus, Eupinytus, Ismenus, Damasichthon, Agenor, Phaedimus, Tantalus”

Apollodorus, Epitome 2

• with Agamemnon (Agamemnon slew Clytaemnestra's former husband Tantalus.) “after he had slain her spouse Tantalus, the son of Thyestes”
• parent: Thyestes (Thyestes was Tantalus's father.) “Tantalus, the son of Thyestes”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.