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The following is a family tree of gods, goddesses, and other divine and semi-divine figures from Ancient Greek mythology and Ancient Greek religion. Chaos The Void
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 ...
While according to Greek mythology the realm of Hades is the place of the dead, Tartarus also has a number of inhabitants. When Cronus came to power as the King of the Titans , he imprisoned the three ancient one-eyed Cyclopes and only the hundred-armed Hecatonchires in Tartarus and set the monster Campe as its guard.
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.
In Greek mythology, humans are created by the Titan Prometheus, who fashions them in the likeness of the gods. [1] While the Greek gods are immortal and unaffected by aging, the mortality of humans forces them to move through the stages of life, before reaching death. [2]
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on ast.wikipedia.org Electra; Usage on bg.wikipedia.org Тантал (митология) Usage on cs.wikipedia.org
Giovanni Boccaccio Genealogia deorum gentilium, 1532. Genealogia deorum gentilium, known in English as On the Genealogy of the Gods of the Gentiles, is a mythography or encyclopedic compilation of the tangled family relationships of the classical pantheons of Ancient Greece and Rome, written in Latin prose from 1360 onwards by the Italian author and poet Giovanni Boccaccio.
Comparative table of Telchines' names and family; Relation Name Sources Bacch. Pindar Callim. Diod. Ovid Non. Hesy. Steph. Tzetzes Eust. Unknown: Sch. Paean: Aitia: Bib. His. Sch. Ibis: Diony. Ethnica: on Theo. Chiliades: Parentage: Tartarus and Nemesis or Thalassa Poseidon Gaia and blood of Uranus or Gaia and Pontus Pontus and Thalassa