Broteas

Broteas (Greek Βροτέας ) is a person of Greek mythology.

He is the son of Tantalus and the Euryanassa and brother of Niobe and Pelops and thus one of the curse affected Tantaliden. According to Pausanias, he is the father of Tantalus also called Son, the first husband of Clytemnestra, which is usually referred to as the son of Thyestes. In pseudo - Apollodorus, he is a hunter, but despises the hunting goddess Artemis and claims that the fire could not harm him, so he throws himself in the madness into the fire and burned there.

Pausanias describes in his work, the image of a mother goddess, known as the rock relief of Manisa today. He tells the Magnesians have Broteas viewed as its builder.

In Ovid's Ibis, a Broteas is also called, has found his death in the fire, as the reason is his longing for death ( cupidine mortis ) specified. Scholia to this point suggest the phrase cupidine mortis to the effect that he was a son of Zeus, who had blinded him for his wickedness. The Mythograph Natale Conti 's Minerva and Vulcan as his parents, the reason for the self-immolation was his ugliness.