In one version of the myth of Tantalus, part of Tantalus ' crime is that after tasting ambrosia himself, he attempts to steal some away to give to other mortals.

The manufacturer of the game, Game Designers ' Workshop ( GDW ), which is now owned by Tantalus, extended the timeline of Twilight 2000 to create the background history for the science fiction game 2300 AD ; by doing so the rather depressing post-nuclear environment of Twilight 2000 is mitigated by the outcome in which the Earth rebuilds itself and begins to colonize space.

Near Mount Yamanlar in İzmir ( ancient Smyrna ), where the Lake Karagöl ( Lake Tantalus ) associated with the accounts surrounding him is found, is a monument mentioned by Pausanias: the tholos " tomb of Tantalus " ( later Christianized as " Saint Charalambos ' tomb ") and another one in Mount Sipylus, and where a " throne of Pelops ", an altar or bench carved in rock and conjecturally associated with his son is found.

The association of Tantalus with the underworld is underscored by the names of his mother Plouto (" riches ", as in gold and other mineral wealth ), and grandmother, Chthonia (" earth ").

Broteas is said to have had a son named Tantalus, who ruled over the city of Pisa in the Peloponnesus.

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.

A Tantalus, by an obvious analogy, is also the term for a type of drinks decanter stand in which the bottle stoppers are firmly clamped down by a locked metal bar, as a means of preventing servants from stealing the master's liquor.

The chemical element tantalum ( symbol Ta, atomic number 73 ) is named after the mythological Tantalus ; its lack of reactivity, and the resulting difficulty in isolating the pure metal from ore, gave the element its name, by analogy ; the pure metal tantalized chemists.

" makes allusions to Tantalus in lines in the first stanza, especially lines two through four: "' Heaven '— is what I cannot reach !/ The Apple on the Tree —/ Provided it do hopeless — hang —/ That —' Heaven ' is — to Me!

In Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, reference is made to Tantalus: " This wine is one of the vintages of Hell – but do not allow yourself to be dissuaded from tasting it upon that account!

An episode of Stargate SG-1 is named after the story, The Torment of Tantalus.

In the science fiction video-game series Mass Effect, the SSV Normandy is equipped with a " Tantalus drive core.

* King Tantalus was also in Tartarus after he cut up his son Pelops, boiled him, and served him as food when he was invited to dine with the gods.

Hyginus says King Tantalus of Lydia had Dione as a consort: by her, he was the father of Pelops, Niobe, and Broteas.

The location of Tantalus ' mortal mountain-fathers generally placed him in Lydia ; and more seldom in Phrygia or Paphlagonia, all in Asia Minor.

The geographer Strabo, quoting earlier sources, states that the wealth of Tantalus was derived from the mines of Phrygia and Mount Sipylus.

One of the kings was Tantalus who ruled over the north western region of Phrygia around Mount Sipylus.

There may have been a historical Tantalus – possibly the ruler of an Anatolian city named " Tantalís ", " the city of Tantalus ", or of a city named " Sipylus " Pausanias reports that there was a port under his name and a sepulchre of him " by no means obscure ", in the same region.

Her father was the ruler of a city called either under his name, as " Tantalis " or " the city of Tantalus ", or as " Sipylus ", in reference to Mount Sipylus at the foot of which his city was located and whose ruins were reported to be still visible in the beginning of the 1st century AD, although few traces remain today.

This form of teasing could be called " tantalizing ", after the story of Tantalus.

The names " Sipylus " or " Sipylum " are mentioned by Pliny the Elder, supported by other sources, as the site of a very celebrated city called " Tantalis " or " the city of Tantalus ", by the name of its cited founder.

McGillion also played the part of young Ernest Littlefield in Stargate SG-1s first season episode " The Torment of Tantalus ", the first Tau ' ri to have passed through the Stargate after its burial.

Mount Yamanlar was the location of the first recorded settlement which controlled the Gulf of İzmir circa 1440 BC, founded by Tantalus and possibly named " Naulochon ", deriving its wealth from the mines of the region.

In " The Torment of Tantalus ", SG-1 discovers a meeting place for the alliance on the planet Heliopolis.

On the basis of his argument according to which there were two different elements in the tantalite sample, Heinrich Rose named them after children of Tantalus ; Niobium and Pelopium, although the argument was later contested as far as pelopium was concerned.

Tantalus ' daughter was the tragic Niobe, who is associated with the " Weeping Rock " ( Ağlayan Kaya in Turkish ), a natural formation facing the city of Manisa.

Pliny the Elder, supported by other sources, mentions that formerly in the same place was a very celebrated city which was called " Tantalis " or " the city of Tantalus " whose ruins were still visible around his time.

By first claiming that references to mythological Tartarus by Plato were in fact meant to identify a Lydian king by the name of Tantalus, he goes on to identify Atlantis with a hypothetical lost temple city called Tantalis, corresponding to modern-day Manisa in Turkey.

* One of the impieties of Tantalus, according to Pindar, was that he offered to his guests the ambrosia of the Deathless Ones, a theft akin to that of Prometheus, Karl Kerenyi noted ( in Heroes of the Greeks ).

This conclusion was disputed in 1846 by the German chemist Heinrich Rose, who argued that there were two different elements in the tantalite sample, and named them after children of Tantalus: niobium ( from Niobe ), and pelopium ( from Pelops ).

This conclusion was disputed in 1846 by the German chemist Heinrich Rose, who argued that there were two additional elements in the tantalite sample, and he named them after the children of Tantalus: niobium ( from Niobe, the goddess of tears ), and pelopium ( from Pelops ).

The name tantalum was derived from the name of the mythological Tantalus, the father of Niobe in Greek mythology.

Tantalus ( Greek, Tántalos ) was a Greek mythological figure, most famous for his eternal punishment in Tartarus.

Tantalus, through Pelops, was the founder of the House of Atreus which was named after his grandson.

Tantalus was also the Great-grandfather of Agamemnon

Tantalus was initially known for having been welcomed to Zeus ' table in Olympus, like Ixion.

In a different story, Tantalus was blamed for indirectly having stolen the dog made of gold created by Hephaestus ( god of metals and smithing ) for Rhea to watch over infant Zeus.

Others state that it was Tantalus who stole the dog, and gave it to Pandareus for safekeeping.

But Tantalus was also the founder of the cursed House of Atreus in which variations on these atrocities continued.

This Tantalus was the first husband of Clytemnestra.

The third Tantalus was a son of Thyestes, who was murdered by his uncle Atreus, and fed to his unsuspecting father.

In serial television fiction, the episode " Mirror, Mirror " of Star Trek: The Original Series, a mirror universe device that allows users to monitor, transport to or eliminate a person from a location within its range was termed a " Tantalus device ".

And, since the vine was planted there for the sole purpose of tormenting Tantalus, you may be sure the grapes have an excellent flavour and aroma – and so does the wine.

In the Homeric story, Orestes was a member of the doomed house of Atreus which is descended from Tantalus and Niobe.