Hell Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Ancient Greece and Rome==== {{Main|Tartarus}} In classic [[Greek mythology]], below heaven, Earth, and [[Pontus (mythology)|Pontus]] is [[Tartarus]], or ''Tartaros'' ({{lang-grc|Τάρταρος}}). It is either a deep, gloomy place, a pit or abyss used as a dungeon of torment and suffering that resides within Hades (the entire [[Greek underworld|underworld]]) with Tartarus being the hellish component. In the ''[[Gorgias]]'', [[Plato]] (c. 400 BC) wrote that souls of the deceased were judged after they [[Charon|paid for crossing the river of the dead]] and those who received punishment were sent to Tartarus.<ref name="gorgias-sokrates">Plato, ''Gorgias'', 523a-527e.</ref> As a place of punishment, it can be considered a hell. The classic [[Hades]], on the other hand, is more similar to Old Testament Sheol. The Romans later [[Interpretatio graeca|adopted these views]]. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page