“Styx and Stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” Well, they will if you swear by the River Styx and then break your oath. The River Styx runs through the Underworld and is in the charge of the Goddess of that name. She’s the daughter of the Ocean and — ...
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Then Athena and Hermes guided him as far as the River Styx. When he saw monsters like Medusa on the other side he had to be restrained from shooting arrows at them. “They are only phantoms now,” Hermes informed him, “you can’t harm them, or they you.” So they indulged in ...
But listen up: I'm going to tell you the secrets of the universe. First off: life after death. The Underworld, the River Styx, and so on? Forget about it. That's poetic fluff. When you die, your body dies with you – but your soul lives on! In fact, in a past life, I was...
Dan Simmons, The River Styx Runs Upstream, 1982. I googled the keywords and came up with this, don't know whether it's right or not, but the synopsis was something like, "A young boy's mother dies and the father decided to ressurect her" Look it up and see what you think! Defi...
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Thornton pushed the barge across the river using a long pole, not unlike Charon, the Greek mythological figure who was said to transport the souls of the dead over the River Styx in such a manner. This type of ferry continued to be used at this crossing until 1934 when a bridge finally...
Achilles was dipped in the river Styx as an infant by his mother Thetis while holding him by the heel. Thus, the only part of Achilles’ body that was vulnerable was his heel. Two recent books, The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee and The Death of Cancer by Elizabeth DeVit...
and then Zeus would send me down to help him; if I had had the sense to foresee all this, when Eurystheus sent him to the house of Hades, to fetch the hell-hound from Erebos, he would never have come back alive out of the deep waters of the river Styx (8.366; See also Deacy,...