Galaxy/The codex of Tantalus the Younger

Tantalus the Younger was Clytemnestra's first husband in Greek mythographic tradition. Apollodorus makes him a son of Thyestes whom Agamemnon killed, together with the newborn child of the marriage, before wedding the widow and taking the Mycenaean throne; Pausanias also knows a parentage from Broteas.

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I.First marriage of Clytemnestra

In Apollodorus' Epitome, Agamemnon kills Tantalus son of Thyestes and the infant born to Tantalus and Clytemnestra, then marries Clytemnestra himself. The murder clears the Mycenaean succession for the Atreid house and plants another grievance inside the marriage that ends in Agamemnon's murder.

Pausanias preserves a variant in which this Tantalus is son of Broteas rather than Thyestes — a parentage fork the atlas records without collapsing the two stems.

II.Homonyms

This node (tantalus-clytemnestra-husband) is Clytemnestra's first husband only. He is not Tantalus of Sipylus, father of Pelops (tantalus); nor the infant son of Thyestes butchered at Atreus' banquet (tantalus-infant). Same name, three distinct Pelopid figures.

AT A GLANCE

Greek nameTantalos (Τάνταλος)
Typemortal
DomainsClytemnestra's first marriage · the inherited feud of the Pelopids
ParentageThyestes · Broteastellings differ →
EtymologyNamed after his infamous ancestor Tantalus of Sipylus; the younger Tantalus inherits the cursed Pelopid name without the underworld torment of the elder.
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