Tartarus

In truth at first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundation of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and Eros (Love), fairest among the deathless gods, who unnerves the limbs and overcomes the mind and wise counsels of all gods and all men within them.

And there, all in their order, are the sources and ends of gloomy earth and misty Tartarus and the unfruitful sea and starry heaven, loathsome and dank, which even the gods abhor.

In front of it the son of Iapetus stands immovably upholding the wide heaven upon his head and unwearying hands, where Night and Day draw near and greet one another as they pass the great threshold of bronze:

At the beginning there was only Chaos, Night, dark Erebus, and deep Tartarus.

He mated in deep Tartarus with dark Chaos, winged like himself, and thus hatched forth our race, which was the first to see the light.

These are groping about in darkness under Tartarus.

For they suppose, according to Plato, that good souls, leaving the place above the heaven, have endured to come into this tartarus, and, taking on a body, to share in all the evils of generation, caring for the race of men — souls that have laid down laws and proclaimed philosophy, "than which no greater good ever came, or will come, to the race of men from the gods.

you are one of my Furies, and are gripping me by the waist to hurl me into Tartarus!

He brought no witnesses with him nor any of the blessed gods who had seen the theft, but with great violence ordered me to confess, threatening much to throw me into wide Tartarus.

For I will take and cast you into dusky Tartarus and awful hopeless darkness, and neither your mother nor your father shall free you or bring you up again to the light, but you will wander under the earth and be the leader amongst little folk.

So Zeus bound his own father and threw him into Tartarus.

Of Tartarus, the black.

Tartarus, out-belching from his mouth the surge

Nor no man is consigned to the abyss

For all the rivers flow together into this chasm and flow out of it again, and they have each the nature of the earth through which they flow.

Thence they go down again under the earth, some passing around many great regions and others around fewer and smaller places, and flow again into Tartarus, some much below the point where they were sucked out, and some only a little;

But those who appear to be incurable, on account of the greatness of their wrongdoings, because they have committed many great deeds of sacrilege, or wicked and abominable murders, or any other such crimes, are cast by their fitting destiny into Tartarus, whence they never emerge.

But Ardiaeus and others they bound hand and foot and head and flung down and flayed them and dragged them by the wayside, carding them on thorns and signifying to those who from time to time passed by for what cause they were borne away, and that they were to be hurled into Tartarus.