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Tartarus

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A dark sunless waste in the nether deeps, as far below earth as heaven is above it, into which Zeus hurled the Titans that rebelled against him; the term was subsequently sometimes used to denote the whole nether world and sometimes the place of punishment.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Tartarus'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​t/tartarus.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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