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TARTARUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 436 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TARTARUS  , in

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Greek
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mythology, the son of
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Aether and Gaea,
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father of Typhoeus and the giants . In the Iliad the word denotes an underground
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prison, as far below Hades as
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earth isbelow
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heaven, in which those who rebelled against the will of
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Zeus were confined . In later writers Tartarus is the
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place of
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punishment of the wicked after
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death, and is used for the underworld generally . Cf .
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ABYSS .

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