Tartarus

Place · slug: tartarus

Also: under the earth, volcanic seats

Stories (12)

Primordial Beginnings: Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus, and Eros
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
Zeus’s Rise: Liberation of the Siblings and First Allies
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic (with Apollodorean detail on Metis’s drug and Cyclopes’ gifts)
Imprisonment of the Titans and the Warders of Tartarus
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
Typhoeus Against Zeus (Hesiodic)
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
Division of the Cosmos among Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades
Cosmogony / Theogony · Homeric / Apollodorean (lots among the three brothers)
Offspring of Echidna and Typhon (Hesiodic Monster Catalogue)
Cosmogony / Theogony — monster genealogy · Hesiodic catalogue (*Theogony* Typhonid brood)
Atlas Condemned to Hold the Heavens
Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan punishment · Hesiodic / Apollodorean (sky-burden as Zeus’s sentence after the Titan war)
Birth of the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — children of Gaia and Uranus · Hesiodic — three Cyclopes and three Hundred-Handers before the Titans’ castration-plot
The Topography of Tartarus (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — underworld geography / cosmic architecture · Hesiodic — Tartarus’s measures, gates, and residents beyond Titan imprisonment alone
Homeric Hymns to the Dioscuri (17 and 33)
Olympian gods — Dioscuri / short Homeric Hymns · Homeric Hymns XVII and XXXIII — Tyndarids as horse-tamers and saviors of sailors
Zeus Forbids the Gods to Fight (*Iliad* 8)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 8 · Homeric — Zeus’s ban on divine intervention
The Three Judges of the Dead (Minos, Rhadamanthys, Aeacus)
Local and lesser — underworld eschatology · Platonic / Apollodorean / Homeric (Minos) overview

Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Tartarus

Stories (12)

Characters in shared stories