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For his heinous crimes against the Olympic gods, Tantalus was banished to the underworld.

Yet did they feel remorse, or instead plot countless revenges they would never have the chance to enact? This album was inspired by the cautionary tales of Ixion and Tantalus, both trapped in a private hell of eternal introspection with no opportunity to act on their endless ruminations.Ĭomposed, produced, performed, & mixed by David Herpich.Tantalus, a villainous demigod in Greek mythology, is perhaps best known for his punishment. In this manner, both Ixion and Tantalus were doomed to spend eternity in total agony, left with nothing to do but brood and contemplate the consequences of their cavalier actions. Once Tantalus gave up, the things he yearned for returned to their tantalizing vicinity, to taunt him anew. Above his head, the tree branches were filled with fruit yet if he reached for the branches, they bent upwards beyond his grasp. At his feet was water, yet if he stooped to drink from it, the water receded from his hands. Once the gods discovered his treachery, they devised another eternal punishment: Tantalus was made immortal, given an unquenchable hunger and thirst, and chained to a tree. Tantalus was granted a dinner with the gods, but in his extreme contempt for them, he went so far as to have his own son killed, dismembered, cooked, and mixed in with the feast to be served.

As punishment for his ingratitude, Ixion was bound to a ceaselessly spinning wheel and flung up into the sky, doomed to circle the universe for eternity. Ixion thought he had succeeded in his conquest, but the "Hera" he had coupled with was in fact only a decoy created by Zeus as a trap. In its most simple form, the tale of Ixion is that he was invited to visit Mount Olympus, but he foolishly repaid this hospitality by determining to have an affair with Zeus' wife, Hera. Yet it is precisely these unenviable fates for which they are most remembered. So many tales abound of the transgressions these two figures made against the gods that there is no one story to explain their unique fates. Each was granted an audience with the gods, and betrayed the generosity shown to them. In Greek mythology, Ixion and Tantalus were both legendary for their extreme hubris and the dire consequences that befell them as a result.