Editing Tantalus (section)

==Etymology==
[[Plato]] in the ''[[Cratylus (dialogue)|Cratylus]]'' (395e<ref>{{Cite web |title=Plato, Cratylus, section 383a, section 395e |url=http://nlp.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0171:text=Crat.:section=395e |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808042918/http://nlp.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0171%3Atext%3DCrat.%3Asection%3D395e |archive-date=8 August 2014 |access-date=2025-04-28 |website=nlp.perseus.tufts.edu |url-status=live }}</ref>) interprets {{Lang|grc|Τάνταλος}} (''{{Lang|grc-Latn|Tántalos}}'') as {{Lang|grc|ταλάντατος}} ({{Lang|grc-Latn|talántatos}}) [<nowiki/>[[Accusative case|acc.]] {{Lang|grc|ταλάντατον}}: {{Lang|grc-Latn|talántaton}} in the original], "who has to bear much" from {{Lang|grc|τάλας}} ({{Lang|grc-Latn|tálas}}) "wretched". The Third [[Vatican Mythographers|Vatican Mythographer]] claims that the name means "wishing for a vision".<ref>Third Vatican Mythographer, 21 (=Pepin, p.&nbsp;249).</ref>

The word ''{{Lang|grc|τάλας}}'' (''{{Lang|grc-Latn|tálas}}'') is held by some to be inherited from [[Proto-Indo-European]], although [[Robert S. P. Beekes|R.&nbsp;S.&nbsp;P.&nbsp;Beekes]] rejects an Indo-European interpretation.<ref>[[Robert S. P. Beekes|R. S. P. Beekes]], ''Etymological Dictionary of Greek'', Brill, 2009, p.&nbsp;1449.</ref>