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Tantalus is a Greek demigod son of Zeus who was sentenced to Tartarus for killing his son and feeding him to the gods.
History[]
Before he died, Tantalus was the king of Anatolia. His father, Zeus, offered him a spot at the Olympian table, and he accepted. When he went to Olympus, Tantalus asked to take nectar and ambrosia back to his people, and Zeus refused, enraged that Tantalus would suggest it. To humiliate the gods, he killed his son Pelops, cooked him into a stew, and served it to the gods, who were horrified at his actions due to their shared trauma of being swallowed by Kronos.
For his terrible crimes, Zeus smote Tantalus and personally took his soul to Hades for punishment. Tantalus was cursed with eternal hunger and thirst and sent to the Fields of Punishment, where he stands in a lake beneath a fruit tree with low branches. Whenever Tantalus tried to drink from the lake, the water dried away, and when he reached for the fruit, a strong wind blew the branch out of his reach.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians[]
Season 2[]
“I Play Dodgeball with Cannibals”[]
After Thalia's Pine Tree is poisoned by Luke Castellan, he arrives with a group of campers to find Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, and Tyson by the tree. After getting annoyed by Percy he notices Tyson and orders the campers to kill him, however they stop after the cyclops is claimed by Poseidon. Instead, confining Tyson in Poseidon's Cabin.
At the Big House, he informs Percy and Annabeth that the gods have expelled Chiron from camp due to him being a son of Kronos. Percy rebuffs this and starts to argue with Tantalus before he sentences the demigod to cabin confinement along with his brother.