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Set on a gorgeous vineyard with a wonderful view of the rolling hills of grapevine, Tantalus Estate is one of the best destinations for fine dining on Waiheke Island. Although it does not produce my favourite wines, it makes up for this with its delicious, seasonal dishes created by Head Chef Gideon Landman. With his experience of working in numerous 1- star and 2-starred Michelin Restaurants in the UK and South Africa, Landmand travelled to NZ and has been appointed head chef at The French Cafe and Baduzzi, both of which have won top restaurant awards in NZ.
I was lucky to catch the sunset and took the opportunity for some photos out in the garden area. All in all, it was a wonderful dinner in a beautiful setting with fantastic service- Tantalus is worth a visit for any occasion.
Tantalus is a figure from Greek mythology who was the rich but wicked king of Sipylus. For attempting to serve his own son at a feast with the gods, he was punished by Zeus to forever go thirsty and hungry in Hades despite being stood in a pool of water and almost within reach of a fruit tree.
The first generation of mortals was given the privilege of dining with the gods on Mt. Olympus, but Tantalus misbehaved spectacularly and made his host Zeus positively livid with outrage. There are three versions of Tantalus' mischief. The first is that he gossiped with his fellow mortals as to what the gods were cooking up with their divine plans for humanity. The second version has Tantalus stealing some of the divine nectar and ambrosia served at the dinner and giving it out to mere mortals down below. These two sins were bad enough and threatened the balance of order between gods and humanity, but the third version, the most popular one, tells of an even more outrageous deed.
Wishing to test if the gods really did know everything and could tell what they were eating even if it was forbidden food, Tantalus killed, diced, and cooked up in a stew his own son Pelops and planned to serve him to all the gods at dinner. The plan fell flat when the Olympians immediately recognised that something was amiss, all that is except one. Demeter, upset at still not having found her lost daughter Persephone, absent-mindedly ate a chunk of Pelops' shoulder. For this reason, when Tantalus' wickedness was revealed and the gods decided to put Pelops back together and make him live again, the young man had to have a prosthetic shoulder made from ivory.
For his audacity, Tantalus first had his kingdom and dynasty cursed and then, in the afterlife, he was to receive one of those delicious punishments that Zeus occasionally dished out to the particularly wicked amongst the mortals. Sisyphus had to forever roll a stone up a hill each day, Ixion was tied to a flaming wheel that never stopped spinning, and Tantalus, completing the most unfortunate trio in Hades, was made to stand in a pool of water but never able to drink from it and quench his insatiable thirst as it drains whenever he bends down to drink. As an added frustration, he was positioned below a tree but can never quite grasp the succulent fruit that hangs from its boughs. He is seen in this condition by the wandering Odysseus down in Hades in Homer's Odyssey. The hero describes the scene, thus:
Some authors give a third twist and have a rock precariously balanced overhead in perpetual danger of falling and squashing the villain instantly. This explains why Tantalus is pointing to a cliff in a scene from a 4th-century BCE red-figure vase from Apulia. This scene may also relate to one version of the Tantalus myth where the king kept the fabulous golden mastiff made by Hephaistos that had guarded Zeus when he was in the cave on Crete as a youngster. Tantalus, a receiver of stolen goods from the thief Pandareus, had refused to give up the idol until Hermes intervened. Zeus, on learning of the crime, had the king crushed under a cliff on Mt. Sipylus, the source of the kingdom's great mineral wealth.
It is interesting that the ancient authors Strabo and Pausanias both claimed the city of Tantalis was destroyed in violent earthquakes which struck throughout Lydia and Ionia. Mt. Sipylus collapsed, marshes became flooded, and Tantalis was eventually submerged beneath a lake. Could this be the geophysical explanation for the punishment of Tantalus? Whatever the reason for the myth and Tantalus' ultimate punishment, from which derives the verb tantalise, the story was a terrible reminder for all mortals lest they be tempted into immoral and impious behaviour.
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So one night a bunch of gods and goddesses came over for dinner. He was all out of groceries, so rather than calling for take-out, he decided to chop up his own son Pelops and serve him, roasted, to his high class friends. (Some versions of the myth say he was trying to test them to see if they were really omniscient.)
The 2014 season began with the splendor of Josh Reddick's catch against the Giants' Michael Morse on the first day of spring training. I wrote an essay about the play. Here it is, if you can bear the agony of my optimism. The star of the article was not Reddick, but my Italian mother-in-law, a woman who is generally oblivious to all sports except Raiders football. To bring everything full circle, I'll start again with mia suocera, my mother-in-law.
Here's what a coward I am. I couldn't watch the A's playoff game against the Kansas City Royals. So I assigned my mother-in-law the duty of watching the game while I hid under my bed. My instructions to her were simple: Do not tell me anything unless the A's win. She agreed.
Another confession: I first went under my bed when Billy Beane traded for Jon Lester. Why? Because, at that moment, the experts on ESPN and MLB-TV declared the A's the favorites to win the World Series. Our beloved Misfits were doomed! The ESPN experts have been dead wrong for decades and now they were picking the A's to win it all.
In my heart of sporting hearts, I knew this would not end well. The A's aren't supposed to go all in. They are not supposed to trump the league in trades for big name, big game pitchers. And they are not supposed to be proclaimed World Series favorites by the ESPN oracles. In classical Greek tragedy, this is known as hubris, or woofing at the gods. When you woof at the gods, they invariably respond by pushing a celestial pie in your face.
I was reminded of my forebodings by Alex Hall's excellent summation of the 2014 season, terming the Athletics a "Greek tragedy." Here it is if you haven't read it. In fact, the opening paragraphs of Alex's piece may be the finest words written about the A's 2014 season.
Most Greek tragedies center upon the family of Atreus. The sons of Atreus, Agamemnon and Menelaus, started a little dispute called the Trojan War about 4,000 years ago. Paris, a Trojan prince, kidnapped Menelaus' main squeeze, Helen, and then all Hades broke loose.
The progenitor of the family of Atreus was a guy named Tantalus. (The word, "tantalize," is a spinoff of Tantalus' name.) He was the father of Atreus and the grandpa of Agamemnon and Menelaus. Tantalus was a charming guy who was originally favored by the gods, though few people knew why. In fact, Tantalus was so favored he was invited to dine with the gods. He showed up on Mt. Olympus bearing a strange stew composed of...well, this is a family publication so I won't describe the contents. The gods were disgusted.
Tantalus sinned even more by stealing the gods' ambrosia and nectar and serving it at his own holiday dinner party. His friends were impressed but the gods were not. They condemned him to the basement of the Underworld where he suffered punishment for eternity. (Eternity is approximately how long the Chicago Cubs have been playing baseball without winning a World Series title.)
Tantalus was forced to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low-hanging branches. He was cursed with an overwhelming thirst which he could not quench because the water evaporated before he could drink. He was tortured by hunger but he could not eat because the tree branches receded before he could pick the fruit.
Pagans (including my ancestors, the Vikings) believed the gods were wicked pranksters. The butt of the gods' jokes was always the human race. I used to think of all this as quaint literary nonsense, but 2014 has made me a pagan believer.
Like Tantalus, the Oakland Athletics have been cursed. Our team is always this close but never ultimately triumphant. Every playoff series, new and different plagues appear in various forms to destroy the A's: Jermaine Dye's broken leg, the Jeter flip, the Gibson homerun, Eric Byrnes, Mickey Hatcher, Billy Hatcher, Justin Verlander...I could go on but I'm starting to feel queasy.
Mathematics, statistics, and even dumb luck are insufficient to explain the pathetic fortunes of the A's. A Tantalus-like hex is the only rational conclusion I can make, and I defy anybody to come up with a better explanation. But the whammy does not apply just to Billy Beane's term in office as High Priest of the Athletics. You can take this back to 1988 when the young heroes of the A's lost the World Series (in five games!) to a Dodger team featuring the "worst starting lineup in World Series history." (Bob Costas said that.)
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