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Charon, in Greek mythology, the son of Erebus and Nyx (Night), whose duty it was to ferry over the Rivers Styx and Acheron those souls of the deceased who had received the rites of burial. In payment he received the coin that was placed in the mouth of the corpse.
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CHARON (Charôn), a son of Erebos, the aged and dirty ferryman in the lower world, who conveyed in his boat the shades of the dead--though only of those whose bodies were buried--across the rivers of the lower world. (Virg. Aen. vi. 295, &c.; Senec. Herc. fur. 764.) For this service he was paid by each shade with an obolus or danace, which coin was ...
CHARON FERRYMAN OF THE DEAD
Pindar, Fragment 143 (trans. Sandys) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.) : "But they, set free from sickness and eld and toils, having fled from the deeply sounding ferry of Akheron (Acheron)." Timotheus, Fragment 786 (from Machon, Philoxenus) (trans. Campbell, Vol. Greek Lyric V) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.) : "But since Timotheos' Kharon (Charon), the one in his Niobe, does not let me dally but shouts that the ferry-boat is leaving, and gloomy Moira (Fate), who must be obeyed is summoning me." Aeschylus, Se...
A sanctuary dedicated to Kharon (Charon), a so-called Kharonion (Charonium), usually consisted of a volcanic or thermal cavern associated with the cult of Haides and Persephone.
GREEK
1. Pindar, Fragments - Greek Lyric C5th B.C. 2. Greek Lyric V Timotheus, Fragments - Greek Lyric C5th B.C. 3. Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes - Greek Tragedy C5th B.C. 4. Euripides, Alcestis - Greek Tragedy C5th B.C. 5. Aristophanes, Frogs - Greek Comedy C5th - 4th B.C. 6. Plato, Phaedo - Greek Philosophy C4th B.C. 7. Callimachus, Fragments - Greek Poetry C3rd B.C. 8. Greek Papyri III Anonymous, Drinking Song - Greek Elegiac C1st A.D. 9. Strabo, Geography - Greek Geography C1st B.C. - C1st A....
ROMAN
1. Ovid, Metamorphoses - Latin Epic C1st B.C. - C1st A.D. 2. Virgil, Aeneid - Latin Epic C1st B.C. 3. Virgil, Georgics - Latin Bucolic C1st B.C. 4. Propertius, Elegies - Latin Elegy C1st B.C. 5. Cicero, De Natura Deorum - Latin Rhetoric C1st B.C. 6. Seneca, Hercules Furens - Latin Tragedy C1st A.D. 7. Seneca, Oedipus - Latin Tragedy C1st A.D. 8. Statius, Thebaid - Latin Epic C1st A.D. 9. Statius, Silvae - Latin Poetry C1st A.D. 10. Apuleius, The Golden Ass - Latin Novel C2nd A.D.
BYZANTINE
1. Suidas, The Suda - Byzantine Greek Lexicon C10th A.D.
Oct 8, 2022 · He is the ferryman of the underworld, responsible for transporting the souls of the deceased across the river Styx or the river Acheron to the afterlife. Ghastly in appearance and superhuman in strength, he is prevalent in both Greek and Roman myth, notably retaining the same name in each and surviving in different forms and representations, up ...
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The river first looked upon in this light was the Acheron in Thesprotia, in Epirus, a country which appeared to the earliest Greeks as the end of the world in the west, and the locality of the river led them to the belief that it was the entrance into the lower world.
In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon ( / ˈkɛərɒn, - ən / KAIR-on, -ən; Ancient Greek: Χάρων) is a psychopomp, the ferryman of the Greek underworld. He carries the souls of those who have been given funeral rites across the rivers Acheron and Styx, which separate the worlds of the living and the dead. [1]
Contrary to popular belief, Charon is not considered to be a god. Instead, he’s an underworld deity under the services of king Hades. Those who passed away would have to cross the rivers Styx and Acheron to reach the underworld, and Charon would take them on this journey.
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Charon is a deity of the Greek Underworld, and is often referred to as a spirit and a daemon. Charon was the child of two early deities of the Greek pantheon, Nyx (Night) and Erebus (Darkness).
