Tityus
Son of Gaia whose liver is torn by two vultures after his violence against Leto.
Overview
Tityus appears in the sequence of punished shades near the end of Odyssey 11. Odysseus sees his enormous body stretched upon the ground while two vultures tear at his liver and he cannot drive them away. The same passage connects the punishment to his attempted violence against Leto. This supports the scene and its stated cause but does not provide a full biography or show that every shade is sentenced by one uniform judicial process.
Relationships
- Descent to the Underworldappears as a punished shade
Odysseus sees Tityus while two vultures tear at his liver.
- Punishments in Hadesis punished in
Odyssey 11 uses Tityus as one figure in the afterlife punishment scene.
Story appearances
- Gates of the UnderworldIndividual punished shade torn by vultures in Homer
Individual punished shade torn by vultures in Homer, part of the Underworld story's crossings, losses, judgments or guarded spaces.
Ancient sources
MythWeave distinguishes ancient-source evidence from later adaptations and modern interpretation.