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 ...

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 ...