The future littoral combat ship Sioux City was launched into Wisconsin's Menominee River in 2016. (Navy) LE MARS, Iowa — When dignitaries gathered in a Wisconsin shipyard last month to celebrate ...

Science Fiction & Fantasy: Crossing the Styx, and Back Again Death is far from final in Justin Cronin’s ‘The Ferryman’ and Charles Stross’s “Season of Skulls.’ ...

The ancient Greeks believed that when people die, their souls are transported across the River Styx and into the afterlife by Charon, the ferryman. This myth may have some truth to it as ...

In Greek mythology, the River Styx forms a border between the underworld and the world of the living. Charon, the ferryman, would collect payment from souls to transport them to the far side, and some ...

Like the mythological Charon, who piloted the shades of the dead across the river Styx to Hades, this aloof young man, named Tristan, is responsible for conducting souls to the afterlife.

An obolus is a small silver coin the Greeks placed under the tongues of the dead so they could pay Charon as he ferried them across the river Styx to the underworld. Andrew Rickard named his ...

Actors who played the role of Charon, Ferryman of the River Styx: Bertram Peacock [] ...

In Greek mythology, it was Charon, the scrawny ferryman, who paddled souls across the River Styx to the underworld. But the real-life ferryman transporting our human souls between the realms of ...

The Greek realm of the dead had a banner year at the 2019 Tony Awards. If eight wins for Anaïs Mitchell’s “Hadestown,” a folk retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth wasn’t enough, Jez ...

According to Aeneid, the epic poem by Virgil, those who could not pay the fee or did not receive funeral rites were forced to wander the shores near the river Styx for 100 years.