Tantalus

Tantalus in Wikipedia

Tantalus (Greek Τάνταλος) was the ruler of an ancient western Anatolian city called either under his name, as "Tantalis",[1] "the city of Tantalus", or as "Sipylus", in reference to Mount Sipylus at the foot of which his city was located and whose ruins were reported to be still visible in the beginning of the Common Era,[2] although few trace...

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Tantalus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Ta/ntalos). 1. A son of Zeus by Pluto, or according to others (Schol. ad Eur. Orest. 5 ; Tzetz. Chil. 5.444; Apostol. Cent. 18.7) a son of Tmolus. (Hygin. Fab. 82, 154; Ant. Lib. 36.) His wife is called by some Euryanassa (Schol. ad Eurip. l.c. ; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 52), by others Taygete or Dione (Hygin. Fab. 82; Ov. Met. 6.174), and by other...

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