It all begins with TANTALOS

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It all begins with TANTALOS

• One of the earliest men, shared his table with
  the gods
• Invited the gods to a cannibalistic feast, in
  which he served his own son, PELOPS
• His second great crime is the theft of ambrosia
  and nectar (the food of the gods, which, like
  them, is imperishable)
• For his 2 crimes (both involving a violation of
  the alimentary code a perversion of the proper
  distribution of food among animals, mortals, and
  the gods), TANTALOS receives a punishment
  reflecting his crime to be forever unable to
  satisfy either thirst or hunger, and so forever
  TANTALIZED.
• His violation makes him into one of the 3 GREAT
  SINNERS

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The three GREAT SINNERS TANTALOS, IXION, AND
SISYPHOS
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IXION tried to seduced HERA (violation of the
sexual code)
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SISYPHOS tried to violate the boundaries between
the world of the living and that of the dead
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The Fatal Chariot Race
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Pelops sons

• with Hippodameia with a concubine
• Atreus and Thyestes (kill) Chrysippus

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Themes spun from that of Parent killing/harming
own children (Tantalos)

• Siblings harming/killing each other Husband and
  wife
• (e.g., Atreus and Thyestes kill harming/killing
  each
• Chrysippus) other
• (e.g., Pelops and
• Hippodameia)

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Brothers/cousins stealing each others wives

• Thyestes steals AEROPE, wife of (his
  brother) Atreus
• Atreus steals PELOPEIA, lover of (his brother)
  Thyestes
• Aigisthos steals KLYTEMNESTRA, wife of (his
  cousin) Agamemnon

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Orestes driven to madness by the Furies/Erinyes
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Apollo can hold back the Furies from Orestes (but
only temporarily)
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Apollo purifies Orestes while the Furies are
asleep
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The Sacrifice of IPHIGENEIA by her father
Agamemnon
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Orestes and his friend Pylades in the land of the
Taurians