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Tartarus, in Greek mythology, lowest region of the underworld. The wicked (e.g., Sisyphus Sisyphus (sĭs`ĭfəs), in Greek mythology, son of Aeolus and founder and king of Corinth. ..... Click the link for more information. , Tantalus Tantalus (tăn`tələs), in Greek mythology, king of Sipylos, son of Zeus and father of Pelops and Niobe. ..... Click the link for more information. , and Ixion Ixion (ĭk`sēən), in Greek mythology, king of the Lapithes. ..... Click the link for more information. ) were sent to Tartarus as punishment for their sins. TartarusIn Greek mythology, the lowest depths of the underworld. It was a region of eternal darkness where the evil were punished after death for having offended the gods. Here Zeus confined the Titans, who were prevented from escaping by hundred-armed giants. Later classical authors sometimes used Tartarus interchangeably with Hades to designate the entire underworld. Tartarus infernal regions. [Gk. Myth.: Hall, 147] See : Underworld How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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These qualities, it is true, are those pre-eminently of the "Works and Days": the literary values of the "Theogony" are of a more technical character, skill in ordering and disposing long lists of names, sure judgment in seasoning a monotonous subject with marvellous incidents or episodes, and no mean imagination in depicting the awful, as is shown in the description of Tartarus (ll. If I see anyone acting apart and helping either Trojans or Danaans, he shall be beaten inordinately ere he come back again to Olympus; or I will hurl him down into dark Tartarus far into the deepest pit under the earth, where the gates are iron and the floor bronze, as far beneath Hades as heaven is high above the earth, that you may learn how much the mightiest I am among you. More there was of it in my head; but this much was an accurate statement of my case; and yet less so now (I was thankful to reflect) than in the morning, when every wave was indeed a mountain, and its trough a Tartarus. |
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