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Tantalus
Tantalus (, ''Tántalos'') was a Greek mythological figure, most famous for his eternal punishment in Tartarus. 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. He was the father of Pelops, Niobe and Broteas, and was a son of Zeus〔Euripides, ''Orestes''.〕 and the nymph Plouto. Thus, like other heroes in Greek mythology such as Theseus and the Dioskouroi, Tantalus had both a hidden, divine parent and a mortal one.
==Etymology==
Plato in the ''Cratylus'' ((395e )) interprets ''Tantalos'' as ταλάντατος ''talantatos'' (acc. ταλάντατον in the original), "who has to bear much" from τάλας ''talas'' "wretched" (now the word ''talas'' is held to be inherited from Proto-Indo-European). R. S. P. Beekes has rejected an Indo-European interpretation.〔R. S. P. Beekes, ''Etymological Dictionary of Greek'', Brill, 2009, p. 1449.〕
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