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

According to the Recognitions of Clement, the mother of Tantalus, called either Plutis or Plute, was the daughter of Atlas.

Notes

  1. Hard, p. 502.
  2. Junk, s.v. Pluto Mother of Tantalus (by Zeus); Gantz, p. 536; Hard, p. 431 n. 126; 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.
  3. Gantz, p. 536; Hyginus, Fabulae 155
  4. Junk, s.v. Pluto Mother of Tantalus (by Zeus) (citing a scholion to Pindar, Olympian 3.41); Tripp, s.v. Tantalus 1; Grimal, s.v. Tantalus 1; Rutherford, p. 431.
  5. Junk, s.v. Pluto Mother of Tantalus (by Zeus); Recognitions of Clement 10.21.7, 10.23.1.

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