Tantalus

Tantalus
Mythological King
Tantalus by Gioacchino Assereto
Other names	Atys
Abode	Lydia or Phrygia or Paphlagonia
Personal information
Parents	(1) Zeus and Plouto (2) Tmolus and Plouto
Siblings	-
Consort	(i) Dione (ii) Taygete (iii) Eurythemista (iv) Euryanassa (v) Clytie (vi) Eupryto
Children	Pelops, Niobe, Broteas and Dascylus

Tantalus (Ancient Greek: Τάνταλος Tántalos), also called Atys, was a Greek mythological figure, most famous for his punishment in Tartarus: for trying to trick the gods into eating his son, he was made to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches, with the fruit ever eluding his grasp, and the water always receding before he could take a drink.

Tantalus was the father of Pelops, Niobe, and Broteas. He was a son of Zeus^[1] and a woman named Plouto. Thus, like other heroes in Greek mythology such as Theseus (his great-great-grandson) and the Dioskouroi, he had one divine and one mortal parent.

The Greeks used the proverb "Tantalean punishment" (Ancient Greek: Ταντάλειοι τιμωρίαι: Tantáleioi timōríai) in reference to those who have good things but are not permitted to enjoy them.^[2] His name and punishment are also the source of the English word tantalize, meaning to torment with the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.^[3]