Charon

Charon in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon (pronounced /ˈkɛrɒn, ˈkɛrən/; Greek Χάρων) is the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. A coin to pay Charon for passage, usually an obolus or danake, was sometimes placed in or on the mou...

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Charon in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

(Χάρων), 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. (Verg. A. 6.295, &c.; Senec. Herc. Fur. 764.) For this service he was paid by each shade with an obolus or danace, which coin was pla...

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