![]() ![]() ![]() The original for the work is held by the National Gallery of Victoria. William Blake's depiction of "The Vestibule of Hell and the Souls Mustering to Cross the Acheron" in his Illustrations to Dante's "Divine Comedy" object 5 c. ![]() The newly dead would be ferried across the Acheron by Charon in order to enter the Underworld. The Roman poet Virgil called it the principal river of Tartarus, from which the Styx and Cocytus both sprang. In the Homeric poems the Acheron was described as a river of Hades, into which Cocytus and Phlegethon both flowed. In ancient Greek mythology, Acheron was known as the "river of woe", the "river of pain" or the "river of lost souls" and was one of the five rivers of the Greek underworld. Others can argue that the River Styx was the river rowed over by Charon. It was the one the daimon Charon rowed his boat over on most mythological accounts. In the Underworld (mythology), was the second or main river in Hades. In Greece (not mythology) Its source is near the village Zotiko, in the southwestern part of the Ioannina regional unit it flows into the Ionian Sea in Ammoudia, near Parga. The Acheron is a river located in the Epirus region of northwest Greece and Underworld in Greek Mythology. ![]()
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