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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 his grasp, and the water always receding before he ...
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.
King Tantalus also ended up in Tartarus after he cut up his son Pelops, boiled him, and served him as food when he was invited to dine with the gods. [12] He also stole the ambrosia from the Gods and told his people its secrets. [13] Another story mentioned that he held onto a golden dog forged by Hephaestus and stolen by Tantalus' friend ...
Tantalus is then banished to the underworld, where he stands in a pool of water that evaporates every time he reaches down to drink, and above him is a fruit tree whose branches are blown just out of reach by the wind whenever he reaches for the fruit. [24] This begins the cursed house of Atreus, and his descendants would face similar or worse ...
Tantalus, Niobe, Pelops, Atreus (the dynasty is named after him), Aegisthus, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Aletes, Iphigenia, Electra, Orestes, Tisamenus In Greek mythology , Atreus ( / ˈ eɪ t r i ə s / AY -tri-əs , / ˈ eɪ t r uː s / AY -trooss ; [ 1 ] ) [ a ] was a king of Mycenae in the Peloponnese , the son of Pelops and Hippodamia , and the ...
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]
After Chiron is fired under suspicion of poisoning Thalia's pine tree, Tantalus is hired as the new activities director at Camp Half-Blood where he is shown to be sadistic and cruel, greatly enjoying tormenting Percy and his friends and blatantly showing favoritism towards Clarisse La Rue.
The green ibis was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae.He placed it in the genus Tantalus and coined the binomial name Tantalus cayennensis. [2]