Tartarus is the place where, according to Plato 's Gorgias (c. 400 BC), souls are judged after death and where the wicked received divine punishment. Tartarus appears in early Greek cosmology, such as in Hesiod 's Theogony, where the personified Tartarus is described as one of the earliest beings to exist, alongside Chaos and Gaia (Earth).
Tartarus was a gloomy place, so far removed from the light of the heavens that it was perpetually black and barren. Originally, Tartarus and the underworld were two entirely separate planes of existence. Over time, however, they became linked so that Tartarus was thought of as a space within or connected to the realm of Hades.
The Geography of Tartarus: Mapping the Underworld I. Introduction to Tartarus Tartarus is a significant concept in Greek mythology, representing a deep abyss used as a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked. It is often described as a place far beneath the earth, a realm that serves as both a prison and a place of punishment for the souls of the damned.
In ancient Greek beliefs. Tartarus Tartarus wasn't just a place; it was a living entity, a primordial god who manifested as a yawning abyss beneath the earth. Born at the dawn of creation, it embodied the raw, untamed power of the void.
Its gaping maw served as both a prison for the wicked and a terrifying reflection of the. The deepest, darkest pit of the Underworld, Tartarus is where monsters are born from chaos, and where their spirits return when they are slain in the upper world. Hidden deep within the bowels of the earth and ruled by the god Hades and his wife Persephone, the Underworld was the kingdom of the dead in Greek mythology, the sunless place where the souls of those who died went after death.
Watered by the streams of five rivers (Styx, Acheron, Cocytus, Phlegethon, and Lethe), the Underworld was divided into at least four regions: Tartarus (reserved for the. Old maps contain many intriguing place names: strange spellings for recognizable places, rumors of lands which once existed, and mysterious unknowns. One such enigmatic toponym which appeared on European and American maps from the 13th to the 19th century is "Tartary" - no Tartary can be found on a 21st century map, and what's more, the area labeled as "Tartary" never seems to be.
Tartarus, the infernal regions of ancient Greek mythology. The name was originally used for the deepest region of the world, the lower of the two parts of the underworld, where the gods locked up their enemies. It gradually came to mean the entire underworld.
As such it was the opposite of Elysium. The early-coloured map 'Tartaria' from the 1632 edition of the 'Atlas Sive Cosmographicae' is a collaborative work by cartographers Gerardus Mercator, Jodocus Hondius and Johannes Cloppenburgh. This map shows a detailed cartographic representation of Tartary, extending from China, Korea and Alaska in the east to Russia and the Caspian Sea in the west.
There have been three Cloppenburgh. Tartarus was the great pit beneath the earth in the oldest cosmogonies of ancient Greek mythology. The universe was envisaged as great sphere--or egg-shaped ovoid--with the solid dome of the sky forming the upper half and the inverse dome of the pit of Tartaros the lower.
The flat, horizontal disc of the earth divided the interior of the cosmic sphere into two halves.