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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