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Tartarus [ˈtɑːtərəs] n Greek myth
1. (Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) an abyss under Hades where the Titans were imprisoned 2. (Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) a part of Hades reserved for evildoers 3. (Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) the underworld; Hades 4. (Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) a primordial god who became the father of the monster Typhon [from Latin, from Greek Tartaros, of obscure origin] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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These qualities, it is true, are those pre-eminently of the "Works and Days": the literary values of the "Theogony" are of a more technical character, skill in ordering and disposing long lists of names, sure judgment in seasoning a monotonous subject with marvellous incidents or episodes, and no mean imagination in depicting the awful, as is shown in the description of Tartarus (ll. If I see anyone acting apart and helping either Trojans or Danaans, he shall be beaten inordinately ere he come back again to Olympus; or I will hurl him down into dark Tartarus far into the deepest pit under the earth, where the gates are iron and the floor bronze, as far beneath Hades as heaven is high above the earth, that you may learn how much the mightiest I am among you. More there was of it in my head; but this much was an accurate statement of my case; and yet less so now (I was thankful to reflect) than in the morning, when every wave was indeed a mountain, and its trough a Tartarus. |
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