Dec 8, 2022 · Tantalus by Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch, after Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem (1588). Ghent University Library, Ghent, Belgium. CC BY-SA 4.0. Finally, the version of the myth in which Tantalus helped Pandareus steal Zeus’ watchdog seems to have posited a simpler punishment: Tantalus was buried alive beneath Mount Sipylus.

Sep 18, 2023 · Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Hard, Robin. “Apollo and Artemis Work Together to Kill the Gigantic Tityos and the Niobids.” In The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology, 8th ed., 141–42. New York: Routledge, 2020. Rose, H. J. “Tityus.”

Apr 28, 2023 · The myth of Odysseus has also been adapted many times for film and television, with various actors taking on the role. In film, these include Kirk Douglas in the Italian Ulysses (1955), John Drew Barrymore in The Trojan Horse (1961), and Sean Bean in Troy (2004).

Apr 24, 2023 · In another myth, Demeter unknowingly ate the shoulder of Pelops when the boy’s father, Tantalus, served him to the gods at a feast. Some sources added that after Pelops was restored to life and Tantalus punished for his wickedness, Demeter fashioned a new shoulder for the boy out of ivory.

Sep 11, 2023 · Atreus was a bloodthirsty Greek king, a son of Pelops who migrated to the Peloponnese. He and his brother Thyestes destroyed one another in their long and violent feud for the throne of Mycenae.

Mar 9, 2023 · Located far below even Hades, Tartarus was a dreaded place of darkness and punishment reserved for only the most nefarious sinners—sinners like Tantalus, Sisyphus, and Ixion. Tartarus’ son with Gaia, Typhoeus , was a monster worthy of his dreaded father.

Oct 9, 2023 · Zethus was a son of Zeus and Antiope. He and his twin brother Amphion were Greek heroes and joint kings of Thebes, whose walls they built themselves. Zethus died of grief after his wife Aedon killed their son by mistake.

Dec 8, 2022 · Sisyphus was a Greek king usually associated with Corinth. He was famously cunning, but unfortunately also deceitful and impious. In the most common version of the myth, Sisyphus managed to cheat Death and thereby extend his life (the details of how he accomplished this vary across different sources). Eventually, however, Sisyphus did die.

Oct 2, 2023 · Aegisthus was the son of Thyestes, who had long quarreled viciously with his brother Atreus. Aegisthus eventually killed his uncle Atreus, as well as Atreus’ son Agamemnon, thus usurping the throne of Mycenae. He also took Agamemnon’s wife Clytemnestra as his lover before being killed by Agamemnon’s son Orestes.

Jul 12, 2023 · Aeschylus: The myth of Agamemnon’s death and its aftermath are the subject of the Oresteia, a trilogy made up of the tragedies Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, and the Eumenides (458 BCE). Sophocles: Agamemnon is a character in the Ajax (probably 440s BCE), in which the hero Ajax goes mad and tries to kill Odysseus and Agamemnon.