Tartarus
Pit beneath Hades
Tartarus is the deepest region of the underworld in Greek mythology, far below Hades—a pit of torment where the Titans were imprisoned and where the wicked suffer eternal punishment.
The name appears in classical literature and theological contexts: Zeus cast the Titans into Tartarus.
It sometimes serves as a synonym for hell or a place of ultimate suffering.
Realm of the departed
- HadesGreek afterlife realm
- abyssImmeasurably profound depth
- pitFruit's hard seed
- TitansElder Greek deities
imprisonment · Zeus · Cronus · punishment · chasm · darkness · Olympians · primordial
Existing from the start
- abyssImmeasurably profound depth
- voidWithout legal effect
- beneathIn a lower position
- HadesGreek afterlife realm
realm · depth · earth · distance · anvil · falling · bronze · gates
underworld
Realm of the departed
Titans · imprisonment · Zeus · Cronus · punishment · chasm · darkness · Olympians · primordial · Gaia
primordial
Existing from the start
Hades · realm · depth · earth · distance · anvil · falling · bronze · gates · walls
Inferno
Literary journey through damnation
Lost · hell · damnation · epic · classical · allusion · descent · Virgil · Aeneid · poetic
Sisyphus
Condemned eternal boulder roller
- TantalusMythic king eternally denied
- eternalLasting without end
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
torment · boulder · thirst · wheel · punishment · condemned · sinners · agony · retribution · justice
Tartarusbliss
Perfect, serene felicity
salvation · rapture · beatitude · eternal rest · liberation