The Romans did not absorb this myth into their mythology. Educated Romans who knew this myth used the Greek name. The Roman elites spoke Greek as well as Latin.
Tantalus was always tortured by food and water that was close to him but out of his grasp. Tantalize means to do what Tantalus had to suffer from.
Tantalus was the son of Zeus the god and Plouto the nymphe.
Niobe
Tantalus was not a god. He was a mortal king. The Gods liked him so they invited him to Olympus. He tried to take Nectar and Ambrosia (God Food) from the Gods and they banished him. Everyone made fun of him, even his own children. He killed his kids and put them in the foods. Tantalus invited the Gods to his palace and have dinner with him. When the Gods realized the kids were in the food, they punished him in the Underworld by making him stand in a river but could never drink and a fruit tree above him but could never eat.
Hurr. The gods.
The accepted scientific name is Aellopos tantalus.
A tantalus
The element named after the daughter of Tantalus is niobium. It was originally known as "columbium" but was officially renamed to niobium in 1949 by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). The name change was made to avoid confusion with a similar element, tantalum, which is also named after Tantalus.
The population of Tantalus Media is 70.
Tantalus Media was created in 1994.
Aellopos tantalus was created in 1758.
Tantalus monkey was created in 1841.
Tantalus was always tortured by food and water that was close to him but out of his grasp. Tantalize means to do what Tantalus had to suffer from.
From Niobe - daughter of Tantalus, goddess of the tears in the Greek mythology.
Tantalus was the son of Zeus the god and Plouto the nymphe.
The name "Tantalus" is the origin of the English verb "to tantalize". The underlying idea is that when someone is tantalized, that person goes through the same experience as Tantalus: something desirable is always just out of that person's reach.
Tantalus committed the crime of sacrilege by serving his son, Pelops, as a meal to the gods during a banquet. The gods were horrified by this act and punished Tantalus with eternal torment in the afterlife.