While Charon is currently listed as a satellite or moon by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), consideration is being given to it perhaps being classified as a dwarf planet in its own right, ...

But Hades gave no reassurance. Wrapped in misty darkness, cut by the dread River Styx, the realm of Hades (“the unseen”) was, the poet Homer tells us, a place of “moldering horror” where ...

Orpheus begged the ferryman at the River Styx to allow him back into the underworld, but he was denied. While Hades was not the protagonist in any of his own myths, he was featured in many of the ...

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The solemn evening landscape raises the subject beyond medieval chivalry to ideas of death, transience and decay - reinforced by the ancient symbolism of crossing the River Styx to Hades. Contemporary ...

old ferryman who brings the dead in a boat across the Dead River - mostly the Acheron, often the rivers Lethe and Styx - for an obolus (coin), so that they are brought into the empire of Hades, the ...