The character of Tartarus as a person receives no extensive development, however. Even though he fathered this monster, Tartarus is far more important as a place than as a person. If roots of heaven, earth, and sea come together before the gates of Tartaros, which imprisons the overthrown Titans, then it must be a special place for a goddess revered by both Titans and Zeus, Hecate, who like the Olympians collectively has rule in the earth, heaven, and sea, f or she gives catch on the sea, victory in battle and flocks on the land. With its introduction of possibility of more than one fate for humans in the afterlife, Hymn to Demeter activates an important strategy. This is eternal punishment.
Homer sees life after death as a prolongation of the moment of death for humans.
Only superhuman offenders are punished. His view is an inspiration to glory. The mysteries introduced an other tradition in which very different conditions await the dead. Orphics took this contrast further. Supported theory by reference to a myth that can be reconstructed with difficulty from a series of poems, the Twenty-Four Rhapsodies , a history of gods and world.