Tantalus

Quality:

Tantalus - son of Zeus in Greek mythology. Article “Tantalus” in Simple English Wikipedia has 8.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Tantalus”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1571 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 10 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3730 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #661 in December 2006
• Global: #916 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2226 in November 2025
• Global: #6243 in December 2025

There are 44 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Tantalus		83.7508
2	Esperanto (eo) Tantalo (mitologio)		60.6743
3	Polish (pl) Tantal (syn Zeusa)		42.5401
4	German (de) Tantalos		39.7037
5	Greek (el) Τάνταλος		39.5214
6	Latin (la) Tantalus		39.2606
7	French (fr) Tantale fils de Zeus		39.2406
8	Italian (it) Tantalo		38.6898
9	Spanish (es) Tántalo (padre de Pélope)		35.919
10	Ukrainian (uk) Тантал (міфологія)		35.7524

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tantalus		4 555 481
2	French (fr) Tantale fils de Zeus		1 480 337
3	German (de) Tantalos		1 376 625
4	Spanish (es) Tántalo (padre de Pélope)		1 205 563
5	Italian (it) Tantalo		1 010 788
6	Russian (ru) Тантал (мифология)		887 532
7	Portuguese (pt) Tântalo		453 625
8	Polish (pl) Tantal (syn Zeusa)		436 646
9	Dutch (nl) Tantalus		326 832
10	Greek (el) Τάνταλος		246 420

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tantalus		17 799
2	French (fr) Tantale fils de Zeus		4 234
3	German (de) Tantalos		4 042
4	Italian (it) Tantalo		3 346
5	Russian (ru) Тантал (мифология)		2 800
6	Spanish (es) Tántalo (padre de Pélope)		2 544
7	Portuguese (pt) Tântalo		1 184
8	Polish (pl) Tantal (syn Zeusa)		1 001
9	Greek (el) Τάνταλος		956
10	Japanese (ja) タンタロス		850

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tantalus		283
2	German (de) Tantalos		177
3	French (fr) Tantale fils de Zeus		154
4	Italian (it) Tantalo		107
5	Russian (ru) Тантал (мифология)		79
6	Dutch (nl) Tantalus		78
7	Spanish (es) Tántalo (padre de Pélope)		58
8	Hebrew (he) טנטלוס		53
9	Polish (pl) Tantal (syn Zeusa)		50
10	Portuguese (pt) Tântalo		36

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Greek (el) Τάνταλος		1
2	Esperanto (eo) Tantalo (mitologio)		1
3	French (fr) Tantale fils de Zeus		1
4	Portuguese (pt) Tântalo		1
5	Arabic (ar) تانتالوس		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Tantal (mifologiya)		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Тантал (митология)		0
8	Catalan (ca) Tàntal (fill de Zeus)		0
9	Czech (cs) Tantalos		0
10	Danish (da) Tantalos		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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