TartarosTartarus

One of the four original Immortals; the Underworld; the sunless abyss in which Zeus imprisoned the Titans; a place for the punishment of the wicked after death; mated with Gaia (Earth) Tartaros was the father of Typhoeus.

Iliad, book 8, lines 13 and 481
Theogony, lines 119, 736, 807, 822, 851 and 869
Eoiae, fragment 91
Shield of Herakles, line 255
Hymn to Apollon, line 335
Hymn to Hermes, lines 256 and 374

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