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Jan 7, 2021 · Definition. In Greek mythology, Tartarus was the lowest point of the universe, below the underworld but separate from it. Tartarus is best known from Hesiod 's Theogony as one of the first beings to come into existence in the universe and also as the place of entombment for the monsters, the Titans, and in later myths, for mortals who committed ...
The following extracts are taken from Hesiod’s Theogony to provide a continuous reading of the Succession Myth. Note that the title headings are my own, and not Hesiod’s. At times, Hesiod uses the terms “Gaia,” “Ouranos,” “Tartarus,” “Ocean,” and “Sea” to refer to ancient gods who came into being at the beginning of the ...
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Tartarus serves at once as a safe place to detain the Titans and as the home of some of the brood of Night who still do their evil business above ground; it thus plays an important role both in the narrative of the rise of Zeus and in Hesiod's description of the negative powers we mortals still have to face.
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).
Jan 18, 2012 · The Greek poet Hesiod (c. 700 BCE) is most famous for his works Theogony and Works and Days. In this passage from Theogony, Hesiod relates the birth of the gods from cosmic Chaos and follows the lineage through the great Zeus, King of the Olympian gods, worshipped by Hesiod's contemporaries: (ll. 1-25) From the Heliconian Muses let us begin to ...
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Jun 11, 2018 · Greek poet Hesiod said that Tartarus was the third god to come alive at the beginning of time, after Chaos and Gaea. He also stated (in other words) that the distance from Hades to Tartarus was the same as the distance between the earth and the sky. In Homer’s epic Iliad, Zeus, the god of Olympian gods, said the same.
Tartarus was the great pit beneath the earth in the oldest cosmogonies of ancient Greek mythology. The universe was envisaged as great sphere--or egg-shaped ovoid--with the solid dome of the sky forming the upper half and the inverse dome of the pit of Tartaros the lower. The flat, horizontal disc of the earth divided the interior of the cosmic ...
