Tantalus

Tantalus was said to have been the son of Zeus, and some accounts describe him as king of Argos or Corinth. For having divulged the divine counsels of Zeus he was afflicted in the lower world with an insatiable thirst, and had to stand up to the chin in a lake, the waters of which receded whenever he tried to drink of them. Clusters of fruit hung over his head, which eluded his grasp whenever he endeavoured to reach them, his mind at the same time being kept in a state of constant terror lest a huge rock, suspended above his head, and ever threatening to fall, should crush him. Tantalus was the father of Pelops, Broteas, and Niobe.