Atlas, Hercules and Tantalus; a Powerful and Deadly Fruit; All About War and Rape and Divorce; Laziness and Guilt Trips and Punishment for All The Above But Don't Despair: a Touch of Salvation Too.

As a boy, I was facinated with those Greek myths, the stories of Hercules and Atlas, Zeus and Mercury, Narcissus and Neptune. Let me tell you one of those - one which brings together the familiar words "Nectar", "Ambrosia", and "Tantalize".

It was King Tantalus of Phrygia whose birth, as often is the case in these tales, was questionable. He was said to have been fathered by Zeus on one of Zeus' amorous escapades to earth. Zeus, the king of the gods, Zeus-pater, god-father which in Latin, became Zhu-pater - Jupiter. At any rate, this relationship, illegitimate though it was, did apparently give Ta…