Apollo would have been banished to Tartarus forever, but was instead sentenced to one year of hard labor as punishment, due to the intercession of his mother, Leto.

Zeus later battled Typhon, a son of Gaia and Tartarus, created because Gaia was angry that the Titans were defeated, and was victorious again.

Because Prometheus helped Zeus, he was not sent to Tartarus like the other Titans.

Tantalus ( Greek, Tántalos ) was a Greek mythological figure, most famous for his eternal punishment in Tartarus.

From the beginning, the extra r was present in the Western forms, and according to the Oxford English Dictionary this was most likely due to an association with Tartarus ( Hell in Greek mythology ), though some claim that the name Tartar was in fact used amongst the Tatars themselves.

Tartarus was used as a prison for the worst of villains, including Cronus and the other Titans who were thrown in by Zeus.

In the Greek poet Hesiod's Theogony, c. 700 BC, the deity Tartarus was the third force to manifest in the yawning void of Chaos.

Cronus was imprisoned in Tartarus while Atlas was sentenced to hold the sky on his shoulders to prevent the sky and Earth from resuming their primordial embrace.

Originally, Tartarus was used only to confine dangers to the gods of Olympus.

* King Sisyphus was sent to Tartarus for killing guests and travelers to his castle in violation to his hospitality, seducing his niece, and reporting one of Zeus ' sexual conquests by telling the river god Asopus of the whereabouts of his daughter Aegina ( who had been taken away by Zeus ).

When Zeus ordered Thanatos to chain up Sisyphus in Tartarus, Sisyphus tricked Thanatos by asking him how the chains worked and ended up chaining Thanatos ; as a result there was no more death.

Sisyphus was forcefully dragged back to Tartarus by Hermes when he refused to go back to the Underworld after that.

* King Tantalus was also in Tartarus after he cut up his son Pelops, boiled him, and served him as food when he was invited to dine with the gods.

He was punished by being tied to a winged flaming wheel that was always spinning: first in the sky and then in Tartarus.

As punishment, Tityos was stretched out in Tartarus and tortured by two vultures who fed on his liver.

* King Salmoneus was also mentioned to have been imprisoned in Tartarus after passing himself off as Zeus, causing the real Zeus to smite him with a thunderbolt.

Cronus, the ruler of the Titans, was thrown down into the pits of Tartarus by his children.

Typhon the enemy of the Olympian gods is described as a vast grisly monster with a hundred heads and a hundred serpents issuing from his thighs, who was conquered and cast into Tartarus by Zeus, or confined beneath volcanic regions, where he is the cause of eruptions.

The Fields of Punishment were for people that had sinned often, but not so much as to be deserving of Tartarus.

The image is further connected to the Biblical, post-Edenic stories in that a mythological story attributes the violent children of Ham becoming the Tartars, and that Tartarus, derived from the location, became a synonym for hell.

Then came Gaia ( Earth ), the more orderly and safe foundation that would serve as a home for the gods and mortals, and Tartarus, in the depths of the Earth, and Eros, the fairest among the deathless gods.

In mythology, Tantalus became one of the inhabitants of Tartarus, the deepest portion of the Underworld, reserved for the punishment of evildoers ; there Odysseus saw him.

Some Evangelical Christian commentaries distinguish Tartarus as a place for wicked angels and Gehenna as a place for wicked humans on the basis of this verse.

Amymone / Hypermnestra is represented with a water pitcher, a reminder of the sacred springs and lake of Lerna and of the copious wells that made Argos the " well-watered " and, by contrast, a reminder that her sisters were forever punished in Tartarus for their murderous crimes by fruitlessly drawing water in pitchers with open bases.

One vase, for instance, depicts him as sinking down into the earth, upright, and buried at the waist ; this legend is described in the Metamorphoses as well, and implies that Caeneus is falling directly into Tartarus.

When it came time for Sisyphus to die, Zeus ordered Thanatos to chain Sisyphus up in Tartarus.

Sisyphus, who was commonly known for being a crafty king that killed guests, seduced his niece and stole his brothers ' throne ( Hyginus 50-99 ) and was banished to the throes of Tartarus by the gods.

Therefore, Ixion is bound to a burning solar wheel for all eternity, at first spinning across the heavens, but in later myth transferred to Tartarus Only when Orpheus played his lyre during his trip to the Underworld to rescue Eurydice did it stop for a while.

* Erebus, Tartarus, Eros: Foundational material for genealogies such as Hesiod's Theogony, they are here revealed to be close relatives of the birds.

The last name is similar to Tartarus, a classical name for the realm of Hades.

Later he attacked the Avengers and attempted to throw them into Tartarus, blaming them for Hercules going into a coma.

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Keyes, along with Johnson and a squad of Marines, head for Halo's library in order to retrieve the Activation Index and prevent the ring's activation while the Master Chief assassinates the Prophet of Regret ; in the process, she and Johnson are captured by the Brute Chieftain Tartarus.

In Halo 2, Tartarus acts as an agent of the Prophets, branding the Arbiter for his failures.

In this form they were agents of punishment who abducted people and tortured them on their way to Tartarus.

Aello (; Ancient Greek: Ἀελλώ, Aellō, " whirlwind ") in Greek mythology was one of the Harpy sisters who would abduct people and torture them on their way to Tartarus.

Gaia, incensed by the imprisonment of the Titans in Tartarus by the Olympians, incited the Giants to rise up in arms against them, end their reign, and restore the Titans ' rule.

Once conquered by Zeus ' thunderbolts, Typhon was cast into Tartarus, the common destiny of many such archaic adversaries, or he was confined beneath Mount Aetna ( Pindar, Pythian Ode 1. 19 – 20 ; Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 370 ), where " his bed scratches and goads the whole length of his back stretched out against it ", or in other volcanic regions, where he is the cause of eruptions.