The stories featured in Greek out are original adaptations of classic Greek myths.

This week's story features lots of unaliving, trying to dodge prophecy,

matricide, a deadly accident, a very uncomfortable dinner, cannibalism, and Clitam Nestra's revenge.

So today's story is all about family and a pretty dysfunctional one at that.

If you've been listening to our show for a while now, you'll know that family drama is a fairly

common theme in Greek mythology. The Olympians came to power by winning a war against their own father,

the Titan, Kronus. There has been family tension ever since. Right, so while this topic isn't really

new, today's saga is particularly bleak and a little violent. It's about a family causing harm

and destruction to each other for generations. It's also about a curse. There's that too.

It all starts with Tantalus, King of Cypulus. Lister's may remember Tantalus from an earlier

episode of our show. Tantalus was the king who killed his son and tried to trick the gods into

eating him for dinner. Yeah, that's pretty gross. It's on record as being one of the most insulting

things a human has ever done to a god. Yeah, and you know, your own son. So we're starting off

on a bad foot already with the way we're treating family. But Tantalus certainly suffered the

consequences of his actions. Zeus sent him to Tartarus, the prison in the underworld, where he

remained for all eternity. But it wasn't just Tantalus who was punished for his crime. Tantalus's

family would go on to be plagued by one of the worst family curses in history. And many believe

that it all started because of Tantalus's despicable actions. So I guess really it should be called

the curse of the house of Tantalus. It is called the curse of the house of Atrius because by the time

Atrius was born, the curse was very obvious. The curse infected five generations beginning with Tantalus

and ending with Arrestes, his great, great grandson. After Tantalus, the next in the family line was

his son, Pylops, the same son that Tantalus killed and served to the gods. Pylops was resurrected

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