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Tantalus was a mortal son of the Greek god Zeus. ... Pivotal Greek Myths and Legends ... Favored by the gods, Tantalus was allowed to dine with them. Taking advantage of this postition, he either made a meal for the gods of his son Pelops or he told other mortals the secrets of the gods which he had learned at their table.
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The word "tantalize" comes from the plight of the mythological Tantalus, who so offended the gods that he was condemned in the afterlife to an eternity of hunger and thirst. He was made to stand in a pool in Tartarus, the Underworld zone of punishment.
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Tantalus was the son of Zeus and was the king of Sipylos. He was uniquely favored among mortals since he was invited to share the food of the gods. ... There are differing stories about what Tantalus' crime was. One account says that he tried to share the divine ambrosia with other mortals, ... » Greek people...
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Zeus's son and king of Lydia, who was honoured by the gods by being allowed to sit at their table on the Olympus. Tantalas killed his son, boiled him and served him to the gods to test them, and as a punishment he was sent to ... His destiny there was to stand in a pool be thirsty and hungry forever, ... Webmistress V.E.K. Sandels...
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deny food and drink to Tantalus, merely because he was a good man and inclined to share with his friends the immortality bestowed on him by the gods. And some of them hang stones over him, and rain insults of a terrible kind upon this divine and good man;
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Greek Mythology: the Classical Gods of Ancient Greece. TANTALUS: Son of ZEUS and one of the NYMPHS, he nicked nectar and did other dreadful things culminating in plopping his son PELOPS into a cooking pot ... TANTALUS: Son of ZEUS and one of the NYMPHS, ... The Complete List of GREEK GODS...; Can't find the Greek God you want?
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Still, how can you feel sympathy for Tantalus, considering the severity of his crimes? But wait, there's more. Tantalus had committed a third crime, the theft of a golden dog created by Hephaestus, the craftsman god, to watch over baby Zeus when he was growing up on the island of Crete.
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Early suggestions of the name of the new planet were: Atlas, Zymal, Artemis, Perseus, Vulcan, Tantalus, Idana, Cronus. The New York Times suggested Minerva, reporters suggested Osiris, Bacchus, Apollo, Erebus. ... Pluto, Greek god of wealth, ruled the dark underworld of myth (ninth planet from the sun).
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One daughter, Clytemnestra, was already married, but Agamemnon killed her husband, Tantalus, and then married her. ... The girl was the daughter of Chryses, a priest of the god Apollo*. Chryses begged for the return of his daughter, but Agamemnon refused. Angered, Apollo sent a plague to devastate the Greek forces.
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