Popular Culture
- Tityos is referenced in Dante Alighieri's Inferno. He is mentioned to be among the biblical and mythological giants that are frozen onto the rings outside of Hell's Circle of Treachery. Dante and Virgil threatened to go to Tityos and Typhon if Antaeus doesn't lower them into the Circle of Treachery.
- In Marvel Comics, Tityos is shown in Thor Annual #19 as an inmate of Tartarus where two vultures peck out his liver.
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