Editing Tantalus (section)

==Family==
Tantalus was generally said to be a son of [[Zeus]]<ref name="Gantz533"/> and a woman named [[Pluto (mother of Tantalus)|Pluto]].<ref>Junk, Tim (2006) [https://referenceworks-brillonline-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/pluto-e929020?s.num=18&s.au=%22Parker%2C+Robert+%28Oxford%29%22 s.v. Pluto <nowiki>[1]</nowiki> Mother of Tantalus (by Zeus)], in [https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/package/bnpo ''Brill’s New Pauly Online''].</ref> In a few sources [[Tmolus (mythology)|Tmolus]] is given as the father.<ref name="Gantz536"/><ref>Scholium ad [[Euripides]], ''Orestes'' [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_qIOkKvKoZcQC/page/n109/mode/2up 5].</ref> The identity of his wife is variously given: generally as [[Dione (mythology)|Dione]] the daughter of [[Atlas (mythology)|Atlas]];<ref>Ovid, ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Ov.%20Met.%206.174&lang=original 6.174]'';'' [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#82 82 & 83]</ref> [[Euryanassa]], daughter of [[Pactolus]], a river-god of Anatolia;<ref>Scholia ad Euripides, ''[[Orestes (play)|Orestes]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Eur.%20Orest.%205&lang=original 5]; [[Tzetzes]] on [[Lycophron]], 52</ref><ref>[[Pseudo-Plutarch]], ''Parallela minora'' [https://topostext.org/work/270#33 33].</ref> [[Clytie|Clytia]], the child of [[Amphidamas|Amphidamantes]];<ref>Scholia ad Euripides, ''[[Orestes (play)|Orestes]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Eur.%20Orest.%2011&lang=original 11]</ref> and [[Eupryto]].<ref>Apostol. ''Cent.'' 18.7</ref>

Tantalus was the father of [[Pelops]], [[Niobe]], [[Broteas]]. A scholium on the ''[[Argonautica]]'' of [[Apollonius Rhodius]] adds [[Dascylus]] as a child of Tantalus.<ref>Scholia on [[Apollonius Rhodius]], ''Argonautica'' 2.752</ref> Through [[Pelops]], Tantalus was the progenitor of the [[House of Atreus]], which was named after his grandson [[Atreus]] and which was plagued by misfortune, making the house the subject of many Greek [[Tragedy|tragedies]].
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+class="nowrap" | Comparative table of Tantalus' family
! rowspan="2" |Relation and Name
! colspan="23" |Sources
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|''<small>Pin.</small>''
|<small>''Sch. ad Eur.''</small>
|''<small>Aris.</small>''
|''<small>Iso.</small>''
|''<small>Sch. Ap. Rh.</small>''
|''<small>Lyc.</small>''
|''<small>Dio. Sic.</small>''
|''<small>Hor.</small>''
|''<small>Par.</small>''
|''<small>Ov.</small>''
|''<small>Str.</small>''
|''<small>Stat.</small>''
|''<small>Apd.</small>''
|''<small>Tac.</small>''
|''<small>Plut.</small>''
|''<small>Hyg.</small>''
|''<small>Pau.</small>''
|''<small>Clem.</small>''
|''<small>Anti.</small>''
|''<small>Non.</small>''
|''<small>Ser.</small>''
|''<small>Gk. Ant.</small>''
|''<small>Tzet.</small>''
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| colspan="24" |''Parentage''
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| colspan="24" |''Spouse''
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| colspan="24" |''Children''
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|✔<ref name=":2">Not named but certainly describes her</ref>
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[[File:Mount Yamanlar Karagol IzmirTurkey.jpg|right|200px|thumb|''Karagöl'' ("The black lake") in [[Mount Yamanlar]], [[İzmir]], [[Turkey]], associated with the accounts surrounding Tantalus and named after him as Lake Tantalus]] [[File:De val van Tantalus.jpg|thumb|245x245px|Print of the fall of Tantalus. Preserved in the [[Ghent University Library]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=De val van Tantalus |url=https://lib.ugent.be/viewer/archive.ugent.be:D1FE9D80-78F2-11EA-9B8B-089BA936FAF6#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-2314,-244,9072,4868 |access-date=2 October 2020 |website=lib.ugent.be}}</ref>]]

Tantalus's grave-sanctuary stood on [[Mount Sipylus|Sipylus]]<ref>Pausanias, 2.22.3</ref> but honours were paid him at [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]], where local tradition claimed to possess his bones.<ref>Pausanias, 2.22.2</ref> In [[Lesbos]], there was another hero-shrine in the small settlement of Polion and a mountain named after Tantalus.<ref>[[Stephen of Byzantium]], noted by Kerenyi 1959:57, note 218.</ref>