Ancestral curse of the house of Tantalus · Atlas

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For what other family must I still revere, rather than the one from a divine marriage, from Tantalus.

The idea that the suffering of Orestes, Electra, and Clytemnestra stems from an inherited curse on the house of Tantalus (Agamemnon's lineage).

There is no house more pitiable than the race of Tantalus, nor has there ever been.

one ancestral curse has ground down both.

The notion of an inherited chain of suffering and violence passed down through the descendants of Tantalus.

For what other family must I still revere, rather than the one from a divine marriage, from Tantalus.

all from that one accursed mother, who slew her husband, after snaring him in an inextricable robe.

The blessed Tantalus—and I am not now taunting him with his misfortunes—