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Tartarus is the place where, according to Plato's Gorgias (c. 400 BC), souls are judged after death and where the wicked received divine punishment. Tartarus appears in early Greek cosmology , such as in Hesiod 's Theogony , where the personified Tartarus is described as one of the earliest beings to exist, alongside Chaos and Gaia (Earth).
Tantalus (Ancient Greek: Τάνταλος Tántalos), also called Atys, was a Greek mythological figure, most famous for his punishment in Tartarus: for revealing many secrets of the gods and for trying to trick them into eating his son, he was made to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches, with the fruit ever eluding his grasp, and the water always receding before he ...
Amymone, the one daughter of Danaus who refused to murder her husband, thus escaping her sisters' punishment; Andromache (Ανδρομάχη), wife of Hector; Andromeda (Ανδρομέδα), wife of Perseus, who was placed among the constellations after her death; Antigone (Αντιγόνη), daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta
As a punishment for his crimes, Hades made Sisyphus roll a huge boulder endlessly up a steep hill in Tartarus. [8] [20] [21] The maddening nature of the punishment was reserved for Sisyphus due to his hubristic belief that his cleverness surpassed that of Zeus himself. Hades accordingly displayed his own cleverness by enchanting the boulder ...
[46] The most famous inhabitants of Tartarus are the Titans; Zeus cast the Titans along with his father Cronus into Tartarus after defeating them. [47] Homer wrote that Cronus then became the king of Tartarus. [48] According to Plato's Gorgias (c. 400 BC), souls are judged after death and Tartarus is where the wicked received divine punishment.
As punishment, he was stretched out in Tartarus and tortured by two vultures who fed on his liver, which grew back every night. [4] Ironically, Jusepe de Ribera's painting depicts a vulture feeding on the left side of Tityos' body, contradictory to the anatomical location of the liver. This punishment is comparable to that of the Titan Prometheus.
The following were spirits of people in Greek mythology who were condemned to Tartarus for their evil or blasphemous behaviour in life. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
According to this widely held view, as punishment for their crime, Zeus struck the Titans with his thunderbolt, and from the remains of the destroyed Titans humankind was born, which resulted in a human inheritance of ancestral guilt, for this original sin of the Titans, and by some accounts "formed the basis for an Orphic doctrine of the ...