Because torture was an acceptable and common form of “getting at the truth,” and that the torture did not stop until the confession was obtained, many of the accused were condemned by their own testimony. Testimony often included -- as a requisite for release -- the indictment of “accomp...
Uranus, the sky, despised many of the children his wife Gaia, the earth, bore. Unlike the beautiful Titans, the one-eyed Cyclops and many-armed Kottos, Briareos and Gyges were monstrous in form and in nature. Uranus secreted these children into the prison of Tartarus, enraging the maternal...