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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 436 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TARTARUS , in See also:

Greek See also:mythology, the son of See also:Aether and Gaea, See also:father of Typhoeus and the giants. In the Iliad the word denotes an underground See also:prison, as far below Hades as See also:earth isbelow See also:heaven, in which those who rebelled against the will of See also:Zeus were confined. In later writers Tartarus is the See also:place of See also:punishment of the wicked after See also:death, and is used for the underworld generally. Cf. See also:ABYSS.

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