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- Tartarus – Mythopedia
Tartarus, a dark primordial landscape below the earth and even Hades, was the home of a handful of sinners and hated enemies of the gods Zeus, for example, cast his defeated foes into Tartarus—first Cronus and the Titans, and later the monster Typhoeus (Tartarus’ own son, perversely enough)
- Sisyphus – Mythopedia
Sisyphus was a Greek king famous for his cunning He was so clever, in fact, that he managed to cheat Death himself and live a longer life than the gods had intended But this later backfired: his actions angered the gods, and when he finally did die, he was forced to suffer eternal punishment in Tartarus
- Tantalus - Mythopedia
Tantalus was best known for his punishment in Tartarus In ancient literature and art, he tended to be grouped with Tartarus’ other famous permanent residents, including Sisyphus, Ixion, and Tityus Tantalus’ punishment varied somewhat in the ancient sources, but it usually involved the sinner floating in a pool whose water he couldn’t
- Titans – Mythopedia
After Zeus defeated the Titans, he imprisoned them in Tartarus and appointed the Hecatoncheires as their guards But not all of the Titans were punished this way Oceanus (and perhaps Hyperion as well) seems to have favored the Olympians during the war and thus remained free; he certainly remained a powerful sea god under the new world order
- Hecatoncheires – Mythopedia
But Apollodorus writes that the Hecatoncheires stood guard over the Titans imprisoned in Tartarus Briareus The only one of the Hecatoncheires who had an independent mythology is Briareus According to a story known only from Homer’s Iliad, Briareus once came to Zeus’ rescue when the other Olympians tried to overthrow him
- Greek Titans - Mythopedia
But Zeus, Cronus’ youngest son, managed to escape, and he eventually freed his siblings Together, they waged a ten-year war against Cronus and the other Titans known as the Titanomachy In the end, the Titans were defeated; most of them were imprisoned in Tartarus by the new gods, the Olympians—so called because they dwelled atop Mount
- Gaia – Mythopedia
Suspecting that his own children would usurp him and take his place as ruler of the heavens, Uranus banished them to the grim Underworld realm of Tartarus as soon as they were born Unwilling to see her children’s lives so carelessly wasted, Gaia fashioned a sickle from grey flint and counseled her sons and daughters to rise up against Uranus
- Greek Primordial Gods - Mythopedia
The Greek primordial gods were the first beings to populate the cosmos and gave birth to all the subsequent gods, creatures, and mortals of Greek mythology Two of these primordial gods, Gaia and Uranus, were the parents of the Titans and the grandparents of the Olympians
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