Plouto (mother of Tantalus)

In Greek mythology, Plouto or Pluto (Ancient Greek: Πλουτώ) was the mother of Tantalus, usually by Zeus, though the scholion to line 5 of Euripides' play Orestes, names Tmolos as the father.^[1] According to Hyginus, Plouto's father was Himas,^[2] while other sources give her father as Cronus.^[3]

According to the Clementine Recognitions, the mother of Tantalus, called either Plutis or Plute, was the daughter of Atlas.^[4] Nonnus, calling her "Berecyntian Pluto", associates Plouto with Berecyntus, a mountain in Phrygia sacred to Cybele.^[5]

^ Junk, s.v. Pluto 1; Gantz, p. 536; Hard, pp. 502, 674 n. 126; Bell, s.v. Pluto 2; Parada, s.v. Pluto 3; Smith, s.v. Pluto 2; Pausanias 2.22.3; Hyginus, Fabulae 82, 155; Antoninus Liberalis, 36 (Trzaskoma, Smith, and Brunet, p. 15); Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.145–146, 7.119, 48.729-731.
^ Gantz, p. 536; Parada, s.v. Pluto 3; Hyginus, Fabulae 155
^ Junk, s.v. Pluto 1 (citing a scholion to Pindar, Olympian 3.41); Tripp, s.v. Tantalus 1; Grimal, s.v. Tantalus 1; Rutherford, p. 431.
^ Junk, s.v. Pluto 1; Clementine Recognitions 10.21.7, 10.23.1.
^ Junk, s.v. Pluto 1; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.729-731; Lewis and Short, s.v. Bĕrĕcyntus.

[1] Junk, s.v. Pluto 1; Gantz, p. 536; Hard, pp. 502, 674 n. 126; Bell, s.v. Pluto 2; Parada, s.v. Pluto 3; Smith, s.v. Pluto 2; Pausanias 2.22.3; Hyginus, Fabulae 82, 155; Antoninus Liberalis, 36 (Trzaskoma, Smith, and Brunet, p. 15); Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.145–146, 7.119, 48.729-731.

[2] Gantz, p. 536; Parada, s.v. Pluto 3; Hyginus, Fabulae 155

[3] Junk, s.v. Pluto 1 (citing a scholion to Pindar, Olympian 3.41); Tripp, s.v. Tantalus 1; Grimal, s.v. Tantalus 1; Rutherford, p. 431.

[4] Junk, s.v. Pluto 1; Clementine Recognitions 10.21.7, 10.23.1.

[5] Junk, s.v. Pluto 1; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.729-731; Lewis and Short, s.v. Bĕrĕcyntus.

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