Phlegethon

Phlegethon in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, the river Phlegethon (English translation: "flaming") or Pyriphlegethon (English translation: "fire- flaming") was one of the five rivers in the infernal regions of the underworld, along with the rivers Styx, Lethe, Cocytus, and Acheron. Plato describes it as "a stream of fire, which coils round the earth and flows into the ...

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Phlegethon in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Φλεγέθων), i. e. the flaming, a river in the lower world, is described as a son of Cocytus; butheis more commonly called Pyriphlegethon. (Verg. A. 6.265, 550; Stat. Tolwb. 4.522.) - A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, William Smith, Ed....

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