Tantalus

Tantalus (Ancient Greek: Τάνταλος, Tantalos) was a Greek demigod son of Zeus and Pluto. He was married to Dione and they bore Pelops, Niobe, and Broteas. Other names that have been given for the wife of Tantalus and mother of his children were Euryanassa and Eurythemista.

Mythology
Tantalus offered his son Pelops up as a sacrifice to the gods. He killed his son, cooked him, and served the meat from his body in a feast that he held for the gods. Since Tantalus had sacrificed his son to the gods, they knew what he had done and none of them ate the meat that was served except Demeter, who had accidentally eaten part of Pelops' shoulder since she was distracted by her daughter's abduction. Clotho, one of the Moirae, brought Pelops back to life by boiling the pieces of his body in a sacred cauldron and replacing the part of his shoulder that Demeter had eaten with ivory.

As punishment for his heinous crime, Tantalus was damned to spend eternity in Tartarus while standing in a pool of water beneath low-hanging fruit trees. However, whenever he reached for the fruit or bent down to drink the water, the food and drink would recede beyond his reach. He was thus cursed to be eternally deprived of nourishment.