place
Tartarus
also: Tartara
The deepest abyss of the underworld in Greco-Roman myth, the place of punishment for the damned. Lucretius invokes it only to deny it, locating its supposed torments in the guilty mind of the living.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of Things §5.58 Tartarus
The deepest pit of the underworld; here a figure for the ruin into which envy hurls the powerful.