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Is Tartarus the Greek equivalent of hell? - anonymous - 03-14-2014 05:00 PM
- The Rookie - 03-14-2014 05:14 PM
Tartarus means the Underworld.
Its ruler was Hades, the brother of Zeus.
Tartarus is the Greek equivalent of Hell.
Its reputation as a dark, menacing place was probably derived from the myths of Persephone's abduction by Hades and Orpheus' search for Eurydice.
There were several regions of Tartarus :
Ashphodel Fields, where ordinary souls would twitter forever like birds and bats;
The Pool of Lethe, where souls could drink to wipe out all memory of their lives; and its opposite, the Pool of Memory;
The Punishment Fields to detain the evil souls;
The Orchard of Elysium for those who had been virtuous.
Many in those days believe that neither the Underworld nor its ruler was particularly evil in intent.
- Newbie - 03-14-2014 05:28 PM
Yes the underworld or Erebus. Hades= Satan (sort of, but Hades isn't really bad)
- Terry - 03-14-2014 05:37 PM
Tartarus was the place the Titans were sent beneath Hades by Zeus after their war with the Olympics. Roman church translators screwed it up to fit their hell.
- Gray Bold - 03-14-2014 05:48 PM
No. It was a place for putting and punishing immortals.
For humans, there was a place in the Underworld. The Fields of Punishment was a place for those who had created havoc on the world and committed crimes specifically against the gods. Hades himself would make the individual's punishment of eternal suffering based on their specific crime.