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Tantalus (Ancient Greek: Τάνταλος Tántalos), also called Atys, was a Greek mythological figure, most famous for his punishment in Tartarus: for revealing many secrets of the gods and for trying to trick them into eating his son, he was made to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches, with the fruit ever eluding ...
Oct 1, 2024 · As punishment for his heinous crimes, Tantalus was condemned to the Underworld, where he was eternally tormented. He stood in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree, but whenever he reached for the fruit, it would recede beyond his grasp, and when he bent down to drink, the water would vanish.
Dec 8, 2022 · According to a different version of the myth—found most notably in Pindar’s Olympian Ode 1—Tantalus did not feed his son to the gods (Pindar actually insists that that myth is impious and therefore cannot be true). Rather, he stole nectar and ambrosia from them and shared this divine food with his mortal friends.
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Tantalus was the son of Zeus and the nymph Plouto in Greek mythology, who was punished after death in Tartarus. With his wife, who may have been Dione, Taygete, Eurythemista, or Euryanassa, he fathered Pelops, Niobe and Broteas. Thus, through Pelops, he was the predecessor of the House of Atreides, as his grandson was Atreus, and his great-grandson...
According to the myth, Tantalus was welcomed in the table of the deities in Olympus; however, he stole ambrosia and nectar, thinking he could take it back to his people, in order to make them immortal and reveal the divine secrets. He later decided to sacrifice his son to his gods; so, he cut Pelops in pieces, and served him to the gods. The gods r...
Tantalus was thrown out of Olympus and after he died he was punished for eternity; he was made to stand in a pool of water, right under the branches of a fruit tree. However, when he tried to reach for a fruit, the branches would go higher and out of reach, while when he tried to drink a sip of water, the waters of the pool would recede.
But the most famous version is surely the one in which Tantalus was condemned to live in a state of perpetual hunger and thirst, plunged into water which, when he went to take a sip, moved away from him, and taunted with a branch full of fruit just above his head, which disappeared out of his reach whenever he went to pluck a fruit from it.
Oct 4, 2024 · According to Homer’s Odyssey, Book XI, in Hades Tantalus stood up to his neck in water, which flowed from him when he tried to drink it, and over his head hung fruits that the wind wafted away whenever he tried to grasp them (hence the word tantalize). According to Pindar’s first Olympian ode, a rock hung over his head ready to fall and ...
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Jan 25, 2018 · Does Tantalus have a gaping spiritual need to eat that fruit and drink the waters that will also forever go unfulfilled, a punishment that is not only bodily torment, but soul shattering as well? And the moral of this tale?
