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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).
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.
Tartarus - The deepest area of the Greek underworld, which is guarded by Campe. Cronus was imprisoned in Tartarus after Zeus defeated him and it is where wicked souls are condemned. Elysium - A paradise for heroes and souls who did good. It is the one place in the underworld that is not dark and gloomy, but idyllic and peaceful instead.
Tantalus (Ancient Greek: Τάνταλος Tántalos) is the name of several figures in Greek mythology, including: . Tantalus, king of Lydia, a son of Zeus, was favored by the gods but made the fatal mistake of sacrificing his son Pelops to the Olympians, who hated human sacrifice and cannibalism.
He was slain by Leto's protective children Artemis and Apollo. [3] In some accounts, Tityus was instead slain by the thunderbolt of his father Zeus. [ 4 ] As punishment, he was stretched out in Tartarus and tortured by two vultures who fed on his liver, which grew back every night. [ 4 ]
Zeus punishes Hera by hanging her in the sky, and sets Poseidon and Apollo the vain task of building the doomed city of Troy. Hephaestus, seeing Hera's punishment, berates Zeus, and Zeus throws Hephaestus for a second time from Olympus. Hephaestus lands on the isle of Lemnos and is nursed to health by the locals. He returns to Olympus and is ...
He was condemned to spend eternity in Tartarus, weaving a rope of straw. As depicted in the picture by Polygnotos, standing behind him is his donkey which eats the rope as fast as it is made. [4] Unlike as it is the case with other inmates of Tartarus, there is no crime mentioned which would explain Ocnus's condition. [5]
Iapetus ("the Piercer") [citation needed] is the one Titan mentioned by Homer in the Iliad as being in Tartarus with Cronus.He is a brother of Cronus, who ruled the world during the Golden Age but is now locked up in Tartarus along with Iapetus, where neither breeze nor light of the sun reaches them.