Tantalus

A son of Thyestes, who was killed by Atreus.1 He was married to Clytemnestra before Agamemnon,2 and is said by some to have been killed by Agamemnon.3 His tomb was shown at Argos.

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References

Notes

  1. Hyginus. Fabulae, 88, 244, 246; others call him a son of Broteas.
  2. Pausanias. Description of Greece ii, 22.4.
  3. ibid. ii, 18.2; comp. iii, 22.4.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.