# Tantalus — The Odyssey character guide

> Tantalus in The Odyssey by Homer.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0011-book-x-aeolus-the-lestrigonians-and-circ

## Who they are

A figure in the underworld punished with eternal hunger and thirst, seen by Ulysses.

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