Tartaros

Tartaros is a primordial deity and a chasm in Greek mythology. In the Theogony of Hesiod, Tartaros is described as the third being to emerge after Chaos and Gaia. It is a dark, gloomy abyss situated deep beneath the earth, considered a place of punishment and suffering for the wicked. Following the Titanomachy, the war between the Titans and the Olympian gods, the defeated Titans were imprisoned in Tartaros. The god Cronus, who had previously overthrown his father Uranus, was also cast into this abyss. Later myths depict Tartaros as a dungeon where notorious sinners faced eternal torment, overseen by mythical beings. The chasm itself is also personified, sometimes as a son of Aether and Gaia, and the father of Typhon. It represents one of the fundamental elements of the cosmos in early Greek thought, a vast and dreaded realm separate from the world of the living and the underworld of Hades.