Tantalus (Tantalos) was the boy of Zeus and the nymph Plouto. He might have actually been the king of Lydia, or Phrygia. He was daddy to Pelops, Broteas and Niobe. All 3 kids consist of in folklore, however Pelops and his descents are the focus of this post.

Tantalus was amongst the couple of mortals who had the honour of signing up with the gods at their delight in install Olympus. He abused their hospitality, to begin with by taking ambrosia (food of the gods) and nectar (drink of the gods) and providing it to mortals. His most significant crime was to get rid of Pelops and use him in a pie to the gods. All the gods except Demeter understood that the pie consisted of human flesh. Demeter had in fact spent months trying to find Persephone, her child who had been abducted by Hades, because of that she was so taken in by sorrow she taken in part of Pelop's shoulder without realising. Zeus informed Clotho, one of the three fates who handled the period of mortal lives citadel at mycenae to bring Pelops back to life. Hephaestus (Hephaistos) made a brand-new ivory shoulder to change the losing out on shoulder.

Tantalus did not escape punishment for this crime versus the gods. He was tossed into Tartarus, the darkest and outer area of the underworld. Here he was continually tortured in a fitting penalty for his crime. He stood in a swimming pool of water that increased to his waist and above him dangled fruits that grew on a tree. He was constantly hungry and thirsty, nonetheless each time he bent to consume the water it disappeared into the ground and whenever he tried to take the fruit the branch that they grew from moved higher making them just out of reach. This would be Tantalus' everlasting penalty.

Pelops developed to end up being a hero. He chose to court Hippodamia, the child of king Oenomaus. Oenomaus would not authorization any suitor to marry his child up till he had participated in a chariot race versus the king. If they lost, they were performed. If they won they would have the ability to wed Hippodamia. Oenomaus had the benefit of special winged horses (a present from Poseidon) that were nearly unsurpassable. In stories recommend that Oenomaus was so protective of his daughter due to the fact that he had dedicated incest with her. Pelops bribed Myrtilus, the charioteer of Oenomaus and altered the chariot lynch pins for wax reproduction. As Oenomaus raced his chariot, the wax pins melted and he was tossed to his death. Pelops won Hippodamia. He in the future eliminated Myrtilus after he tried to rape Hippodamia. As Myrtilus was dying he cursed Pelops and his descendants.

Pelops and Hippodamia had two kids; Atreus and Thyestes. He also had a bastard child called Chrysippus. Chrysippus was believed to be the preferred son and possible inheritor of Pelops' throne. Hippodamia encouraged her boys to get rid of Chrysippus. Atreus and Thyestes tossed Chrysippus down a well, killing him. Pelops eradicated Hippodamia, Atreus and Thyestes. Hippdomia hung herself, Atreus and Thyestes then settled in Mycenae in the Peloponnese region of Greece.

The 2 bros then tried to outwit each other for the throne of Mycenae. Atreus assured Artemis he would compromise his finest lamb to the goddess. He discovered a golden lamb, for that reason he hidden it from the goddess and offered it as a present to his other half, Aerope. She offered it to Thyestes, her secret lover. He produced the lamb, stating that the owner of it should be king. Atreus accepted this till he found his partner's extramarital relations with his bro. They continued to quarrel over ownership of the throne. Lastly Atreus welcomed Thyestes to a feast as a token of relationship. Thyestes accepted the deal and began to eat the food prior to him. What he did not understand was that the meat he taken in was the butchered bodies of his kids. As quickly as he understood what Atreus had done, he cursed his bro and his descendents. The only kid to survive was Aegisthus.

Atreus had two children, Agamemnon and Menelaus. Menelaus would later on marry Helen of Sparta after she had been courted by most of the high ranking guys of Greece. They all swore an oath to secure her prior to she married, so when she was abducted by Paris and reclaimed to Troy, Agamemnon and Menelaus collected the Greeks together and made war on the Trojans. Agamemnon had really wed Clytaemestra, the sis of Helen. She was frightened when Agamemnon compromised Iphigenaia, their kid. Iphigenaia had been sacrificed to Artemis so that she would send a beneficial wind and enable the Greeks to set sail for Troy. Clytaemestra swore vengeance for her child's death.