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TANTALUS , in See also:Greek See also:legend, son of See also:Zeus (or Tmolus) and See also:Pluto (See also:Wealth), daughter of Himantes, the See also:father of See also:Pelops and See also:Niobe. He was the traditional See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Sipylus in See also:Lydia (or of See also:Phrygia), and was the intimate friend of Zeus and the other gods, to whose table he was admitted. But he abused the divine favour by revealing to mankind the secrets he had learned in See also:heaven (Diod. Sic. iv. 74), or by killing his son Pelops (q.v.) and serving him up to the gods at table, in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to test their See also:powers of observation (See also:Ovid, Metam. vi. 401). Another See also:story was that he See also:stole See also:nectar and See also:ambrosia from heaven and gave them to men (See also:Pindar, 01. i. 6o). According to others, Pandareus stole a See also:golden See also:dog which guarded the See also:temple of Zeus in See also:Crete, and gave it to Tantalus to take care of. But, when Pandareus demanded the dog back, Tantalus denied that he had received it. Therefore Zeus turned Pandareus into a See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone, and flung down Tantalus with See also:Mount Sipylus on the See also:top of him (See also:Antoninus Liberalis, 36). The See also:punishment of Tantalus in the See also:lower See also:world was famous. He stood up to his See also:neck in See also:water, which flowed from him when he tried to drink of it; and over his See also:head hung fruits which the See also:wind wafted away whenever he tried to grasp them (Odyssey, xi. 582). This myth is the origin of the See also:English word " tantalize," and also of the See also:common name " tantalus " for a set of spirit decanters kept under See also:lock and See also:key. Another story is that a See also:rock hung over his head ready to fall and crush him (See also:Euripides, See also:Orestes, 5). The sins of Tantalus were visited upon his descendants, the Pelopidae. See also:Ancient See also:historical reminiscences and natural phenomena, especially volcanic catastrophes, are at the bottom of the legend. The See also:tomb of Tantalus on Mount Sipylus was pointed out in antiquity, and has been in See also:modern times identified by C. F. Texier with the See also:great See also:cairn beneath Old See also:Magnesia; but See also:Sir W. M. See also:Ramsay inclines to a remarkable rock-cut tomb beside Magnesia.
The story of Tantalus is an See also:echo of a semi-Greek See also:kingdom, which had its seat at Sipylus, the See also:oldest and holiest See also:city of Lydia, the remains of which are still visible. There was a tradition in antiquity that the city of Tantalus had been swallowed up in a See also:lake on the See also:mountain; but the legend may, as Ramsay thinks, have been suggested by the vast See also:ravine which yawns beneath the See also:acropolis. According to S. See also:Reinach (Revue archeologique, 1903), Tantalus was represented in a picture See also:standing in a lake and clinging to the branches of a See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree, which gave rise to the See also:idea that he was endeavouring to See also:pluck its See also:fruit. The punishment of the overhanging rock refers to the dangerous position of the See also:town of Tantalis below the See also:summit of Mount Sipylus.
See PELOPS, PIRYGIA; Sir W. M. Ramsay in See also:Journal of Hellenic Studies, iii. ; Frazer's See also:Pausanias, iii. p. 555, v., p. 392;
J. Hylcn, De Tantalo (See also:Upsala, 1896), who considers the story of the thirst of Tantalus in the underworld to be due to the Orphic interpolator in the Nova of the Odyssey, and the Pandareus story to be an innovation of the Alexandrine poets. The See also:essay contains a copious See also:list of authorities and a See also:history of the bsgend. According to V. See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry (Revue See also:des Etudes grecques, 1892), Tantalus is the See also:sun: the fruits which elude his grasp are the stars suspended on the tree of heaven, which disappear at the rising of the sun; the water into which the sun descends without drinking, is the See also:sea. Tantalus's betrayal of the secrets of the gods refers to the sun unveiling the secrets of heaven; the slaying of Pelops denotes the going-down of the sun, Pelops meaning the " See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
gray one," an epithet of the gloomy See also:sky in which the last rays of the sun are extinguished.
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