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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).
Like Hades, it too is so dark that the "night is poured around it in three rows like a collar round the neck, while above it grows the roots of the earth and of the unharvested sea." [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]
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 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.
Hades and Cerberus, in Meyers Konversationslexikon, 1888. Hades, as the god of the dead, was a fearsome figure to those still living; in no hurry to meet him, they were reluctant to swear oaths in his name, and averted their faces when sacrificing to him. Since to many, simply to say the word "Hades" was frightening, euphemisms were pressed ...
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 ...
Near the edges of the earth is a region inhabited by fantastical creatures, monsters, and quasi-human beings. [6] Once one reaches the ends of the earth they find it to be surrounded by and delimited by an ocean (), [7] [8] as is seen in the Babylonian Map of the World, although there is one main difference between the Babylonian and early Greek view: Oceanus is a river and so has an outer ...