Mar 9, 2023 · 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).

Dec 8, 2022 · 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 ...

Dec 8, 2022 · 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.

Sep 18, 2023 · Tityus in Tartarus. The slain Tityus was cast into Tartarus, where he joined other mythological sinners such as Sisyphus, Tantalus, and Ixion in eternal suffering. He lay outstretched while either one or two vultures (or a serpent) pecked at his liver or heart, unable to fend off the terrible creatures that plagued him.

Mar 13, 2023 · 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.

Mar 10, 2023 · Coeus, a Greek Titan whose name meant “inquiry,” was grandfather to the Olympians Apollo and Artemis. After he and the other Titans were banished to Tartarus, Coeus led an escape attempt, but he was ultimately driven back by Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog of the Underworld.

Mar 10, 2023 · There is little to no information on Hyperion’s role in the Titanomachy, the ten-year war between the Titans (led by Cronus) and the Olympians (led by Zeus). At the end of the war, the Olympians cast the defeated Titans into Tartarus. Yet Hyperion’s actions during the conflict, and his eventual fate, are uncertain. Pop Culture

Dec 9, 2022 · 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 ...

Mar 23, 2023 · 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.

Mar 10, 2023 · 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 ...