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Τάρταρος

tartaros · ὁ

Tartarus, the nether world

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Theogony 9 · 13.07/10k
Prometheus Bound 4 · 6.8/10k
Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 2 · 1.93/10k
Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Gorgias 3 · 1.14/10k
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Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
Iliad 2 · 0.18/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

Tartarus, the nether world

Tartarus, Il. 8.13, 481, Hes. Th. 807, h.Ap. 336, h.Merc. 256, 374, etc. (never in Od.); later, the nether world generally, Hes. Sc. 255; ἀπέραντος, κελαινός, A. Pr. 154 (lyr.), 1051 (anap.); Ταρτάρου μελαμβαθὴς κευθμών ib. 221; σκότον νέμονται Τάρταρόν θʼ ὑπὸ χθονός Id. Eu. 72, cf. LXX Jb. 40.15, 41.23.

personified as husband of Gaia and father of Typhoeus, Hes. Th. 822; ὦ Γᾶς παῖ καὶ Ταρτάρου, of Cerberus, S. OC 1574 (lyr.).

In the wild

Τάρταρόν · Tartaron Aeschylus, Eumenides 71–73
Ταρτάρου · Tartarou Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1026–1029
Τάρταρον · Tartaron Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1050–1052
Τάρταρον · Tartaron Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 152–157
Ταρτάρου · Tartarou Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 221–222
Τάρταρον · Tartaron Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.10 (DIORISIS sentence 1919)

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Where it came from

Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Τάρταρος (scan p. 1114; entry #7863).

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