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Acheron
An underworld river, fierce and unsailable, rolling rocks in its flood.
Reading notes
- Agamemnon §610 Acheron
A river of the underworld; to look unafraid on 'black Acheron' is to master the fear of death.
- Hercules (Mad) §731 Acheron
The fierce underworld river that rolls rocks and cannot be sailed back.
- Octavia §279 Lift your face from Acheron
Acheron, a river of the underworld, here standing for the realm of the dead; Agrippina summons her murdered husband Claudius from it.
- Oedipus §569 Acheron
A river of the underworld; its disturbance signals the breaking-open of the dead's road.
- Phaedra §85 Acheron
A river of the underworld, here the underworld itself, where Theseus has gone.
- Thyestes §1 Acheron
A river of the underworld, here standing for the realm of the dead and its keeper.