tantalus in English

noun
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a stand in which decanters of liquor can be locked up though still visible.
More affordable are Victorian decanters and a tantalus , a lockable case usually made to hold three cut-glass decanters.
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a Lydian king, son of Zeus and father of Pelops. As punishment for his crimes (which included killing Pelops), he was forced to remain in chin-deep water with fruit-laden branches over his head, neither of which he could reach to drink or eat. His name is the origin of the word tantalize.

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1. Aellopos tantalus, known as the Tantalus sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae.

2. Atreus was one of the many sons of Pelops and Hippodamia, and therefore grandson of Tantalus; potentially Atreus had as many as 15 siblings, but Atreus would be most closely associated with his brother Thyestes

3. Angered by the adultery of Thyestes and Aerope, a similar madness to that which had taken his grandfather Tantalus seemed to take Atreus, for now Atreus served to Thyestes the two sons born

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5. ‘The Argive king Tantalus began a pattern of destruction for Argos after he offended the gods by feeding them his son Pelops at a banquet.’ More example sentences ‘Perhaps the most famous statue of the classical period is the Doryphoros by the Argive sculptor Polyclitus, which he also referred to …

6. ‘The Argive king Tantalus began a pattern of destruction for Argos after he offended the gods by feeding them his son Pelops at a banquet.’ More example sentences ‘Perhaps the most famous statue of the classical period is the Doryphoros by the Argive sculptor Polyclitus, which he also referred to …

7. Atreus （ Ἀτρεύς), a son of Pelops and Hippodameia, a grandson of Tantalus, and a brother of Thyestes and Nicippe.[PELOPS.] He was first married to Cleola, by whom he became the father of Pleisthenes; then to Aerope, the widow of his son Pleisthenes, who was the mother of Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Anaxibia, either by Pleisthenes or by Atreus [AGAMEMNON]; and lastly to Pelopia, the