comment on the song’s explanation for Pelops’ expulsion from Olympus: his father, Tantalos, had stolen nectar and ambrosia from the gods and given some to his human drinking companions; analysis of the perversion of the reciprocity of a feast by serving up inappropriate food: the story of Tantalos’ stealing of nectar and ambrosia serves as a functional equivalent of the story about his crime of creating a scene of cannibalism, which allows for a narrative substitution of the two stories