Tartarus: alternatives and connections

A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed t…

Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible.

The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the da…

One of the four subkingdoms in the classification of Cuvier. It has been much modified by later writers.

Of or pertaining to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so mali…

The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship.

A monster, in the shape of a three-headed dog, guarding the entrance into the infernal regions, Hence: Any vigilant custodian or guard…

The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions.

A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- call…

small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions

A place of nether darkness, being the gloomy space through which the souls passed to Hades. See Milton's "Paradise Lost," Book II., li…

Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodi…

Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, et…

The presence of the Divine Being; the manifestations of the divine nature and favor to the blessed in heaven; celestial honor; heaven.

An order of birds which formerly included all the waders. By later writers it is usually restricted to the sandpipers, plovers, and al…

The nether world (according to classical mythology, the abode of the shades, ruled over by Hades or Pluto); the invisible world; the g…

To render like heaven or fit for heaven.

Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music.