The dungeon beneath the underworld of Hades where Kronos and the other Titans are punished after the Battle of the Titans.
Tartaros Quotes in Prometheus Bound
The Prometheus Bound quotes below are all either spoken by Tartaros or refer to Tartaros. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Prometheus Bound
Quotes
And to this pain
do not expect a limit or an end,
until some god appears as a successor
to take your tortures as his own and willingly
go down into the gloom of Hades
and the black depths of Tartaros.
Make your decision in the light of that!
These are no boastful threats but true words
all too clearly spoken. For Zeus’s mouth
does not know how to lie. Each word of his
comes true. But you, weigh carefully
what you must do, and don’t hold stubbornness
above considered judgment.
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Tartaros Term Timeline in Prometheus Bound
The timeline below shows where the term Tartaros appears in Prometheus Bound. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
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...the chorus he would rather have been sent to the “House of Hades” or even Tartaros. “But here I hang up high, / a plaything for the winds to buffet, /...
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...Prometheus’s plan, and Kronos and the Titans were defeated and sent to the “depths of Tartaros.” Prometheus had been of “service to the tyrant god,” but he has still punished him....
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...which “will throw him / from his omnipotence into oblivion.” When Zeus drove Kronos to Tartaros, Kronos cursed Zeus, and Prometheus knows “the What and the How.” Zeus’s “downfall” cannot be...
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...and that the world with shake with Zeus’s fury. Zeus can even banish Prometheus to Tartaros if he wishes. “He cannot kill me,” Prometheus says.
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