Tantalus (son of Thyestes)

Also known as: Tantalus · Role: son of Thyestes · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 18

Life events

• Tantalus married Clytæmnestra before her marriage to Agamemnon, according to one tradition.(Book 2 · Chapter 22)
  • With: Clytæmnestra
  • “the Tantalus who was the son of Thyestes or Broteus, (for both traditions are current), who married Clytæmnestra before Agamemnon, was buried here”

Book 2 · Chapter 18

• parent: Thyestes “the murder of Tantalus the son of Thyestes by Agamemnon”
• with Agamemnon (Agamemnon murdered Tantalus.) “the murder of Tantalus the son of Thyestes by Agamemnon”
• married with Clytæmnestra “they say he married Clytæmnestra as her first husband”

Book 2 · Chapter 22

• parent: Broteus “the Tantalus who was the son of Thyestes or Broteus, (for both traditions are current)”
• married with Clytæmnestra “who married Clytæmnestra before Agamemnon, was buried here”
• parent: Thyestes “the Tantalus who was the son of Thyestes or Broteus”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.