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Tartarus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Tartarus in Greek mythology, lowest region of the underworld. The wicked (e.g., Sisyphus , Tantalus , and Ixion ) were sent to Tartarus as punishment for their sins.
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Titan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...led by Zeus, in the battle called the Titanomachy. Zeus freed from Tartarus the Cyclopes and the hundred-handed giants, the Hecatoncheires, to...allowed to remain on Olympus, but all the other Titans were condemned to Tartarus.
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Cyclops
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...distinct traditions. According to Hesiod the Cyclopes were smiths, the sons of Uranus and Gaea. They were imprisoned in Tartarus by their father and again by their brother Kronos. In return for their freedom they gave Zeus the thunderbolt that aided him...
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Aloadae
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...others said they killed each other while shooting at a hind sent by Apollo. For their wickedness they were condemned to eternal torture in Tartarus. Thus the phrase "to pile Pelion on Ossa" means to attempt an enormous but fruitless task.
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Charles Heavysege
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Shakespeare and the Bible were the chief influences on all his own writings. Heavysege's first book of verse, The Revolt of Tartarus, appeared in England in 1852. In 1853 Heavysege emigrated to Canada, settled in Montreal, and supported his large family...
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Tantalus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...to the society of the gods, but his abominable behavior aroused their anger, and Zeus condemned him to suffer eternally at Tartarus. One legend says that he had divulged divine secrets and stolen the gods' sacred food. Another tells that he had murdered...
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Hades
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Aeacus, and Rhadamanthus—assigned to each soul its appropriate abode. The virtuous and the heroic were rewarded in the Elysian fields ; wrongdoers were sent to Tartarus ; and most wandered as dull shadows among fields of asphodel.
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Ixion
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...While there Ixion attempted to seduce Hera, but Zeus created a phantom of her and by it Ixion became the father of the centaurs . As punishment for his impious act, Ixion was chained eternally to a revolving, fiery wheel in Tartarus .
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Hell
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...teachings of contemporary schoolmen, Dante also acknowledged Virgil as his master and followed him in many descriptions of Tartarus. The Semitic idea crops up here and there, however, such as in the beginning of one of the cantos, where what looks suspiciously...
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Titans
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...Olympian deities. These fought the Titans for ten years, and after the eventual Olympian victory the Titans were banished to Tartarus, a place below the underworld. Despite the cruelty and violence of these stories, the time when Kronos ruled was nevertheless...
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