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Plouto (mother of Tantalus)

Sources

Ancient

Pausanias

2.22.3

the grave of him [Tantalus] who legend says was son of Zeus and Pluto—it is worth seeing—is on Mount Sipylus.

Hyginus

Fabulae

82

Tantalus

Tantalus, the son of Jupiter and Pluto,

155

Jupiter's Children

Tantalus by Pluto daughter of Himas.

Antoninus Liberalis

36 Pandareos (Trzaskoma, Smith, and Brunet, p. 15)

where Tantalos, the son of Zeus and Plouto ...

Nonnus

Dionysiaca

1.137–146 (I pp. 12, 13)

[137] Then Cadmos, passing in his travels from land to land, followed the never-staying tracks of the bull turned bridesman. He came to the bloodstained cave of Arima,^c when the mountains had moved from their seats and were beating at the gate of inexpugnable Olympos, when the gods took wing above the rainless Nile, like a flight of birds far out of reach, oaring their strange track in the winds of heaven, and the seven zones of the sky^d were sore assailed.

[145] This was the reason. Zeus Cronides had hurried to Pluto’s bed,^e to beget Tantalos, that mad robber of [cont.]

^c A mountain range in Asia Minor under which the monster Typhoeus was said to be laid, according to one story. Compare Hom. Il. ii. 783.

^d The course of the se4ven planets about the pole.

^e Pluto (not Pluton), daughter of Cronos and mother of Tantalos.

7.119 (I pp. 252, 253)

"The third [arrow for Zeus in Eros' quiver] to Pluto's bridal brings the lord of high Olympos."

Modern

Gantz

p. 536

Before concluding this section, we should consider also Tantalos' parentage and wife. Our earliest information on the first of these points is Euripides, where Tantalos is a son of Zeus (Or 5); later sources all agree on that much, save for the scholion to this same passage, which names Tmolos as the father. The mother [of Tantalus] seems, however, on all occasions when she is named, to be one Plouto (Paus 2.22.3; Σ Od 11.582; Σ Or 4; Fab 82, 155; Nonnos 7.119 [union with Zeus only]) Hyginus calls her a daughter of Himas (Fab 155), but we know nothing else about her.

Grimal

s.v. Tantalus, p. 431

Usually said to be a son of Zeus and Pluto, the latter being a daughter of Cronus or of Atlas.

Hard

p. 502

Tantalos was a son of Zeus, and his mother is reported to have been a certain Plouto (Wealth), which seems appropriate enough for a man who was proverbial for his riches.¹²⁶

p. 674

126 First nmaed as a son of Zeus, Eur. Orestes 5; Plouto, schol. ibid. 4, Paus. 2.22.4; ...

Ogden

p. 26

For Zeus, son of Cronus, rushing to the bed of Pluto [daughter of Cronus] to sire Tantalus,

Rutherford

... or because Tantalus [ΣOL. 3.23] was the son of Plouto, daughter of Cronos, as Autesion says [cf. FGrH 298 F 1].

Smith

s.v. Pluto 2

2. A daughter of Cronos or Himantes, became by Zeus or Tmolus, the mother of Tantalus. (Schol. ad Eurip. Or. 5; Paus. 2.22.4; Schol. ad Pind. Ol. 3.41; Hyg. Fab. 155.)