Tartarus

Greek Myths

Mines

Significance: Tartarus, the deep abyss in Greek mythology, was sometimes depicted as a place where precious metals were mined by the souls of the damned.

Source: While specific references to mines in Tartarus are sparse, the notion of Tartarus as a place of dark labor is implied in Homer’s Iliad (Book 8, lines 478-481), where Zeus speaks of Tartarus as a place deep beneath the earth, "as far beneath Hades as heaven is above the earth." The labor of the condemned in Tartarus can be interpreted metaphorically, relating to mining.

Central Greece

Mount Othrys

This mythic battle, which lasted for ten years, ended with the defeat of the Titans and their imprisonment in Tartarus, a deep abyss in the underworld.

Hesiod's Theogony

A genealogy of the gods

Tartarus: The deep abyss that serves as a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked.

Uranus imprisoned the Cyclopes and Hecatoncheires in Tartarus, which angered Gaia.

The Titans were defeated in a great war called the Titanomachy and were imprisoned in Tartarus.

Uranus, fearing the potential of his offspring, cast the Cyclopes and Hecatoncheires into the deepest abyss of Tartarus, a dark, dungeon-like prison far beneath the earth, where they were to remain for eternity.

Zeus liberated them from Tartarus, where they had been imprisoned by Uranus.

Zeus and his allies cast the defeated Titans into the abyss of Tartarus, securing their dominance over the cosmos.

The defeated Titans were imprisoned in Tartarus, a deep abyss used as a dungeon of torment and suffering, guarded by the Hecatoncheires.

As a punishment, he was condemned to eternal hunger and thirst in Tartarus.

Planet

Uranus

To prevent them from overthrowing him, Uranus imprisoned these children in Tartarus, a deep abyss used as a dungeon of torment in the underworld.

Cast into Tartarus

Archangel

Uriel

He is also associated with the angelic roles of guarding the underworld and overseeing Tartarus in some texts.

From Chaos emerge Gaia (Earth), Tartarus (the Abyss), Eros (Love), Erebus (Darkness), and Nyx (Night), setting the stage for the creation of the cosmos and the gods.