Tantalus
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Tantalus, also called Atys, was a Greek mythological figure, most famous for his punishment in Tartarus: for either revealing many secrets of the gods, for stealing ambrosia from them, or for trying t
Tantalus on an Apulian red-figure volute krater, c. 330-320 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen.
Print of the fall of Tantalus. Preserved in the Ghent University Library.
Engraving by Hendrik Goltzius and C. Cornelius (1588)
Oil painting by Gioacchino Assereto (circa 1640s)
Pelops
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In Greek mythology, Pelops was king of Pisa in the Peloponnesus region. He was the son of Tantalus and the father of Atreus.
Tantalus
…daughter of Atlas; Euryanassa, daughter of Pactolus, a river-god of Anatolia; Clytia, the child of Amphidamantes; and Eupryto. Tantalus was the father of Pelops, Niobe, and Broteas. A scholium on the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius adds Dascylus as a child of Tantalus. Through Pelops, Tantalus was the progenitor…
Roman mosaic with Pelops and Hippodamia, kept in the D. Diogo de Sousa Museum in Braga, Portugal.
Pelops and Hippodamia racing in a bas-relief (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Remains of the Pelopion in Olympia
"Throne of Pelops" at Yarıkkaya locality in Mount Sipylus