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Tantalus was the father of Pelops, Niobe, and Broteas. He was a son of Zeus [1] or Tmolus [2] and a woman named Pluto. Thus, like other heroes in Greek mythology such as Theseus (his great-great-grandson) and the Dioskouroi, he had one divine and one mortal parent.
Tantalus (Ancient Greek: Τάνταλος Tántalos) is the name of several figures in Greek mythology, including: . Tantalus, king of Lydia, a son of Zeus, was favored by the gods but made the fatal mistake of sacrificing his son Pelops to the Olympians, who hated human sacrifice and cannibalism.
A 1772 painting by Jacques-Louis David depicting Niobe attempting to shield her children from Artemis and Apollo. In Greek mythology, Niobe (/ ˈ n aɪ. ə. b iː /; Ancient Greek: Νιόβη: Nióbē) was a daughter of Tantalus and of either Dione (as most frequently cited) or of Eurythemista or Euryanassa.
Pelops was a son of Tantalus [1] and either Dione, [2] Euryanassa, [3] Eurythemista, [4] or Clytia. [5] In some accounts, he was called a bastard son of Tantalus while others named his parents as Atlas and the nymph Linos. Others would make Pelops the son of Hermes and Calyce [6] while another says that he was an Achaean from Olenus. [7] [8]
Riphat, son of Gomer, grandson of Japheth (legendary ancestor of «Riphatheans, now called Paphlagonians»). (according to classic Greek mythology) Tantalus the Elder, son of Zeus. Pelops, son of Tantalus. Broteas, son of Tantalus. Tantalus the Younger, son of Broteas. (according to Homer's Iliad)
Perseus (Περσεύς), son of Zeus and the founder-king of Mycenae and slayer of the Gorgon Medusa; Talthybius (Ταλθύβιος), herald and friend to Agamemnon. He was worshipped as a hero at Sparta and Argos, where sacrifices were offered to him. [5] Theseus (Θησεύς), son of Poseidon and a king of Athens and slayer of the Minotaur
However the father of Tantalus (by Pluto) was usually said to be Zeus. [4] Tmolus, a son of Proteus, who along with his brother Telegonus was killed by Heracles. [5] However according to the mythographer Apollodorus, the two sons of Proteus killed by Heracles were named Telegonus and Polygonus. [6] Tmolus, a son of Ares and Theogone, was a king ...
In Greek mythology, Pluto or Plouto (Ancient Greek: Πλουτώ) was the mother of Tantalus, usually by Zeus, though the scholion to line 5 of Euripides' play Orestes, names Tmolos as the father. [1] According to Hyginus, Pluto's father was Himas, [2] while other sources give her father as Cronus. [3]