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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).
Hesiod's Theogony, (c. 700 BCE) which could be considered the "standard" creation myth of Greek mythology, [1] tells the story of the genesis of the gods. After invoking the Muses (II.1–116), Hesiod says the world began with the spontaneous generation of four beings: first arose Chaos (Chasm); then came Gaia (the Earth), "the ever-sure foundation of all"; "dim" Tartarus (the Underworld), in ...
The winged goddess Arke was born to Thaumas, a minor god; no mother of hers is mentioned anywhere. [a] She and Iris were both messenger deities.[b] During the Titanomachy, she and Iris originally sided with the Olympian gods, but then Arke betrayed them for the Titans and became their own messenger, while Iris remained the Olympian gods' messenger.
In Greek mythology, the underworld or Hades (Ancient Greek: ᾍδης, romanized: Háidēs) is a distinct realm (one of the three realms that make up the cosmos) where an individual goes after death. The earliest idea of afterlife in Greek myth is that, at the moment of death, an individual's essence ( psyche ) is separated from the corpse and ...
Tartarus: The god of the deepest, darkest part of the underworld, the Tartarean pit (which is also referred to as Tartarus itself). Θάλασσα (Thálassa) Thalassa: Personification of the sea and consort of Pontus. Οὐρανός (Ouranós) Uranus: The god of the heavens (Father Sky); father of the Titans.
The two fought a cataclysmic battle, which Zeus finally won with the aid of his thunderbolts. Defeated, Typhon was cast into Tartarus, or buried underneath Mount Etna, or in later accounts, the island of Ischia. Typhon mythology is part of the Greek succession myth, which explained how Zeus came to rule the gods.
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 ...
In Greek mythology, Campe or Kampe (/ ˈ k æ m p iː /; [1] Greek: Κάμπη) was a female monster.She was the guard, in Tartarus, of the Cyclopes and Hecatoncheires, whom Uranus had imprisoned there.