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Tantalus

deity single tradition · 3

Tantalus was the father of Pelops and ancestor of Agamemnon. Agamemnon's family history had been tarnished by murder, incest, and treachery, consequences of the heinous crime perpetrated by his ancestor, Tantalus, and then of a curse placed upon Pelops, son of Tantalus, by Myrtilus, whom he had murdered.

↻ synthesized from 3 sources

When

First attested
1000 BCE
Attested period
-1000 – 2020
Historical notes
Appears in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

Relationships

parent of
Pelops, Broteas, Niobe
co occurs with
Pandion, Aëdon, Amphion, Artemis (Diana), Dardanus, Zeus, Hermes
consort of
Dione
child of
Broteas

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Mentioned by

Sources

wikipedia (3)
  1. Agamemnon
  2. Broteas
  3. Niobe

Source passages

“Agamemnon was a descendant of Pelops, son of Tantalus. According to the common story (as told in the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer), Agamemnon and his younger brother Menelaus were the sons of Atreus”

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“Broteas had a son Tantalus, like his grandfather.”

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“Her father was the ruler of a city located near Manisa in today's Aegean Turkey that was called "Tantalis" or "the city of Tantalus", or "Sipylus". Niobe's father is referred to as "Phrygian" and sometimes even as "King of Phrygia"”

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