Styx

Reading notes

• The Art of Love §2.2 Styx

  The great river of the underworld; Daedalus would swim even it to escape Minos.

• Letters from the Black Sea §3.5 the Styx

  The Styx, chief river of the underworld; Ovid says the Pontic land of his exile lies scarcely farther from it than the dead themselves.

• Metamorphoses §1.5 Stygian grove

  The Styx, the underworld river by which the gods swear their most binding oaths.

• Metamorphoses §2.14 the marsh the gods must swear by

  The river Styx of the underworld; an oath sworn by it binds even the gods irrevocably.

• Metamorphoses §3.41 black as the Styx

  The Styx, the great river of the underworld, byword for deathly blackness.

• Metamorphoses §10.286 Styx

  The chief river of the underworld; here for the realm of the dead.

• Metamorphoses §12.368 Styx

  The river of the underworld; to 'drink wine mixed with Styx' is to die.

• Metamorphoses §14.438 Stygian seats

  The realm of the underworld river Styx -- the world of the dead, from which Aeneas now returns to the light.