User blog comment:JonTheVGNerd/PE Proposal: Tantalus/@comment-27059900-20200126015503/@comment-2059440-20200126092340

he never ate any of his own son, he simply served his son to the gods to further mock them (by proving they were not all-knowing) - before this he had also been invited to eat with the gods and repaid them by stealing from them and disrespecting them.. he was basically determined to show himself as superior to the gods, a militant anti-theist but in the worst possible way as the gods were willing to actually treat him well (or at least tolerate him) but he kept pushing and pushing.. so he ultimately got exactly what he deserved.