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  2. Tartarus - Wikipedia

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    While according to Greek mythology the realm of Hades is the place of the dead, Tartarus also has a number of inhabitants. When Cronus came to power as the King of the Titans , he imprisoned the three ancient one-eyed Cyclopes and only the hundred-armed Hecatonchires in Tartarus and set the monster Campe as its guard.

  3. Campe - Wikipedia

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    The name given in Greek texts is Κάμπη, with an accent on the first syllable.As a common noun κάμπη is the Greek word for caterpillar or silkworm. It is probably related to the homophone καμπή (with the accent on the second syllable) whose first meaning is the winding of a river, and came to mean, more generally, any kind of bend, or curve.

  4. Tantalus - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Phlegethon - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, the river Phlegethon (Φλεγέθων, English translation: "flaming") or Pyriphlegethon (Πυριφλεγέθων, English translation: "fire-flaming") was one of the five rivers in the infernal regions of the underworld, along with the rivers Styx, Lethe, Cocytus, and Acheron.

  6. Category:Condemned souls in Tartarus - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Aello - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Aello (/ eɪ ˈ ɛ l oʊ /; Ancient Greek: Ἀελλώ, Aellō means "storm" or "storm-swift" in ancient Greek) was one of the Harpy sisters who would abduct people and torture them on their way to Tartarus. [1]

  8. The Fall of the Titans - Wikipedia

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    Just as the Titan Cronus overthrew his father Uranus, the Titans were overthrown by Cronus's children (Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Hestia, Hera and Demeter), the core Olympian deities, in the Titanomachy (or "War of the Titans"), at the end of which they were imprisoned in Tartarus, a Greek version of Hell. Their arrival there is depicted in the ...

  9. Menoetius - Wikipedia

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    Menoetius or Menoetes (/ m ə ˈ n iː ʃ i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Μενοίτιος, Μενοίτης Menoitios), meaning doomed might, is a name that refers to three distinct beings from Greek mythology: Menoetius, a second generation Titan, son of Iapetus and Clymene or Asia, and a brother of Atlas, Prometheus and Epimetheus.