Right after Ruthlessness.

Pelops and his ivory shoulder

Interview with the Vampire ... After the Phantoms of Your Former Self | Francisco Goya Saturn Devouring His Son | Johann U. Krauss Pélops ressuscité | Homer The Odyssey transl. Emily Wilson | Anne Rice Interview with the Vampire | Tantalus | Interview with the Vampire ...The Ruthless Pursuit of Blood with All a Child's Demanding | Euripides An Oresteia transl. Anne Carson | Interview with the Vampire A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart | Interview with the Vampire Like Angels Put in Hell by God | Christa Wolf Medea transl. John Cullen | Ruth Comfort Mitchell The Sin Eater

Knowing Pelops, Poseidon's most prolific male lover in the mythology, is also the son of Tantalos, makes the interactions between Tantalos and Percy in Sea of Monsters 100 times funnier.

Chrysippus’s story is already horrific enough and tho Pelops usually curses and goes to war against Laius (rightfully so) there is this one variant where he straight up forgives Laius bc love??? And it’s implied he lets them sleep together???

This is an overlooked and heartbreaking part of real life Pederasty where a father would give his consent to another man to have his son as a “lover”.

Pelops

Pelops was a Greek hero and king of Pisa in Greek mythology. As the son of Tantalus, he was a member of the cursed House of Atreus, and was cruelly sacrificed by his father in a twisted way to test the gods – an act that backfired and led to Tantalus' eternal punishment.

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Ganymede & Hyacinthus & Pelops' friendship is something I never knew I needed.

Huh? Oh, yeah, I'm totally normal about Greek Mythology. Nothing to see here, folks.

I might add lemons.......

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I've said it before and I'll say it again, I would love an entire series on the whole House of Atreus! This family is so messed up, but it's so fascinating too!

I love your Poseidon so much. He’s so cryptic and has big thot energy! Xgxhxchch but seriously I love your portrayal of him and how he’s so feral!

Thank you!!! Omg big thot, cryptic and feral are a very good description of him! Hahaha 😆 Always angry and in need of his bf!

Rick Riordan missed a huge opportunity with the Tantalus story in The Sea of Monsters.

As is typical in Greek mythology, there are a lot of different variations to the Tantalus myth. Tantalus’s punishment is always the same, but the reason why he was punished is the aspect of the Tantalus myth that changes from telling to telling.

The one that Rick Riordan goes with for the PJO books is the one where Tantalus is punished for stealing ambrosia and nectar from the gods.

But in another version of the myth, Tantalus is punished because when he was having the gods over for dinner, he had no actual meat to serve them with, so he kills and cooks his son Pelops to feed them instead. The gods quickly realize what Tantalus has done, but not before Demeter accidentally eats a part of Pelops’s shoulder because she’s still missing Persephone. So the gods throw Tantalus into the Underworld for the crime of cannibalism/familicide. Then they revive Pelops, and Hephaestus replaces his missing shoulder with an ivory prosthetic.

BUT.

In the version of the myth that Rick Riordan uses, when Tantalus brings his son Pelops with him to dinner with the gods, Poseidon takes one look at Pelops and gets so horny that he whisks Pelops away to have sex with him, which spreads a rumor that Pelops was killed when in actuality he was just having casual sex with the god of the sea.

Imagine if Percy found that out! That would’ve been fucking hysterical. I’m just imagining an alternate version of that scene where Tantalus is talking about his backstory, and Percy, being decently well-versed in Greek mythology is like, “weren’t you cursed for murdering and cannibalizing your son?” and Tantalus just goes “no, what do you take me for, some kind of monster? your dad just took him to have sex with him on olympus” and then he keeps ranting about the gods blaming him for everything and Percy is just internally screaming because wtf dad.

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Pélope

En la mitología griega, Pélope fue un héroe griego y el rey de Pisa. Tántalo, que pertenecía a la estirpe maldita de Atreo, era el padre de Pélope, a quien sacrificó cruelmente en un intento retorcido de poner a prueba a los dioses; una acción que resultaría en el castigo eterno de Tántalo.

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Euripides Chrysippus literally just being ancient Lolita is very interesting

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