Galaxy/The codex of Tantalus the Younger

Clytemnestra's first husband, killed with his newborn child by Agamemnon; his father was reported as Thyestes or Broteas.1

I

Apollodorus calls him a son of Thyestes. Agamemnon killed Tantalus and his newborn child, then married the widowed Clytemnestra and took the Mycenaean throne.2

II

Pausanias knew a grave at Argos for the Tantalus who married Clytemnestra before Agamemnon, but records two competing fathers for him: Thyestes or Broteas.3

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BEYOND THE POETS

How the centuries since have seen Tantalus the Younger — art, artifacts and echoes.

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