person
Tantalus
Father of Niobe and Pelops; in the underworld he stands in water that flees his thirst, the fruit drawing back from his hunger.
Reading notes
- Agamemnon §1 burnt up with scorching thirst
Tantalus, father of Pelops and ancestor of this house, set in water and under fruit that flee his thirst and hunger.
- The Pumpkinification of the Divine Claudius §14 Tantalus
Underworld sinner racked by eternal thirst amid receding water; another of the named damned.
- Hercules (Mad) §765 an old man with parched throat
Tantalus, who stands in fleeing water with fruit drawing back from his hunger, the eternal thirst of the underworld.
- Hercules on Oeta §1056 the Phrygian old man
Tantalus, the Phrygian (Lydian) ancestor punished with eternal hunger and thirst; his torments paused at Orpheus's song.
- Medea §740 Tantalus
Damned to eternal hunger and thirst; bidden here to drink the spring of Pirene undisturbed.
- Octavia §615 Tantalus
A sinner of the underworld tormented by hunger and thirst amid food and water that flee him.
- Thyestes §1 Tantalus
Lydian king, son of Jupiter and ancestor of the house; for serving his son Pelops to the gods he suffers eternal hunger and thirst in the underworld. His ghost speaks the prologue.