This article concerns the Greek river. For other uses, see Acheron (disambiguation).

Acheron river near the village of Glyki. The Greek Underworld is a general term used to describe the various realms of Greek mythology which were believed to lie beneath the earth or beyond the horizon Aeacus (also spelled Eäcus, Greek, "bewailing" or "earth borne" was a mythological king of the island of Aegina In Greek mythology, Cerberus or Kerberos ( Greek Κέρβερος Kérberos) the ker or Daimon of In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon (in Greek, Χάρων &mdash the bright) was the Ferryman of Hades Hades (from Greek, Hadēs, originally, Haidēs or, Aidēs, probably from Indo-European *n̥-wid- 'unseen' refers both to the ancient In Greek mythology, Minos ( Ancient Greek:) was a mythical king of Crete son of Zeus and Europa. In Greek mythology, Persephone ( Kore or Cora) was the embodiment of the Earth's fertility at the same time that she was the Queen of the Underworld In Greek myths, Rhadamanthus ( also transliterated as Rhadamanthys or Rhadamanthos) was a wise king the son of Zeus and The Asphodel Meadows is a section of the Ancient Greek underworld where indifferent and ordinary souls were sent to live after death Cocytus or Kokytos, meaning "the river of wailing" (from the Greek κωκυτός, "lamentation" is a river in the underworld in In Greek mythology, Elysium ( Greek:) was a section of the Underworld (the spelling Elysium is a Latinization of the In Greek mythology, Erebus or Erebos ( Ancient Greek:, English translation: "deep blackness/darkness or shadow" was the son of a primordial In Classical Greek, Lethe (λήθη Classical Greek, Modern Greek:) literally means "forgetfulness" or "concealment" In Greek mythology, the river Phlegethon ( English translation: "flaming" or Pyriphlegethon (English translation "fire-flaming" was In classic Greek mythology below Heaven, Earth, and Pontus is Tartarus, or Tartaros ( Greek Τάρταρος deep place In Greek mythology, Ixion was king of the Lapiths, the most ancient tribe of Thessaly, and a son of Ares or Antion or the notorious In Greek mythology, Sisyphus ( Greek: Σίσυφος, Latinized: Sisyphus (ˈsɪsɨfəs was a King punished in In Greek mythology Tantalus ( Greek Τάνταλος was a son of Zeus and the Nymph Plouto. In Greek mythology, the Titans ( Greek: Tītā́n; plural Tītânes) were a race of powerful Deities that ruled during the legendary

The Acheron is a river located in the Epirus region of northwest Greece. "Riverine" redirects here For the use of that term in Maritime geography, see there Epirus ( Greek: Ήπειρος Ípiros) is a periphery in northwestern Greece. Greece (Ελλάδα transliterated: Elláda, historically, Ellás,) officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία Acheron translates as the "river of woe" and it was believed to be a branch of the underworld river Styx over which in ancient Greek mythology Charon ferried the newly dead souls across into Hades. Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and Heroes the nature of the world and the origins and significance In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon (in Greek, Χάρων &mdash the bright) was the Ferryman of Hades Hades (from Greek, Hadēs, originally, Haidēs or, Aidēs, probably from Indo-European *n̥-wid- 'unseen' refers both to the ancient The lake called Acherousia and the river still called Acheron with the nearby ruins of the Necromanteion are found near Parga on the mainland opposite Corfu. The Nekromanteion is the Ancient Greek Temple of Necromancy devoted to Hades and Persephone. Parga (Πάργα Pargë is a town and a municipality located in the northwestern part of Preveza in northwestern Greece being surrounded entirely by the prefecture Corfu (Κέρκυρα Kérkyra, ˈkʲe̞ɾkʲiɾa Κέρκυρα or Κόρκυρα Corcyra Corfù is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea

Another branch of Acheron was believed to surface at the Acherusian cape (now Eregli in Turkey) and was seen by the Argonauts according to Apollonius of Rhodes. Karadeniz Ereğli is a city and district in Zonguldak Province of Turkey, on the Black Sea shore at the mouth of the Kılıçsu River. Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches For other uses of this term see Argonaut. In Greek mythology, the Argonauts ( Ancient Greek:) were a band of heroes Greeks who settled in Italy identified the Acherusian lake into which Acheron flowed with Lake Avernus. Avernus was an ancient name for a crater near Cumae (Cuma Italy in the Region of Campania north of Naples. Plato in his Phaedo identified Acheron as the second greatest river in the world, excelled only by Oceanus. Biography Early life Birth and family Plato was born in Athens Greece Ocean (Ὠκεανός was believed to be the world-ocean in Classical antiquity, which the ancient Romans and Greeks considered to be He claimed that Acheron flowed in the opposite direction from Oceanus beneath the earth under desert places. The god of the river, son of Oceanus and Tethys fathered Ascalaphus with Orphne or Gorgyra. Ocean (Ὠκεανός was believed to be the world-ocean in Classical antiquity, which the ancient Romans and Greeks considered to be In Classical Greek mythology, Tethys (Greek Τηθύς) daughter of Uranus and Gaia ( Hesiod, Theogony lines In Greek mythology, two people share the name Ascalaphus (Ασκάλαφος In Greek mythology, Orphne was a Nymph that lived in Hades. With Acheron, she mothered Ascalaphus.

The word is also occasionally used as a synecdoche for Hades itself. Synecdoche is taken from Greek sinekdohi (συνεκδοχή meaning "simultaneous understanding" (si-nek-duh-kee (pronounced /sɪˈnɛkdoˌki/ Virgil mentions Acheron with the other infernal rivers in his description of the underworld in Book VI of the Aeneid. Publius Vergilius Maro ( October 15, 70 BCE &ndash September 21, 19 BCE later called Virgilius, and known in English as Virgil or For the group of nine Ancient Egyptian deities see Ennead. The Aeneid (əˈniːɪd in In VII, line 312 he gives to Aeneas the famous saying, flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo: 'If I cannot deflect the will of Heaven, I shall move Hell. ' The Acheron was sometimes referred to as a lake or swamp in Greek literature, as in Aristophanes' The Frogs and Euripides' Alcestis. Aristophanes (Ἀριστοφάνης ˌærɪˈstɒfəniːz in English ca Frogs ( Ancient Greek: grc Βάτραχοι grc-Latn Bátrachoi) is a comedy written by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. Euripides ( Ancient Greek:) (ca 480 BC–406 BC was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens (the other two being Aeschylus Alcestis (Ἄλκηστις is a Princess in Greek mythology, known for her love of her husband. In Dante's Inferno, the Acheron river forms the border of Hell. The Divine Comedy Hell, according to many Religious beliefs, is a location in the Afterlife, which may be described as a place of suffering Following Greek mythology, Charon ferries souls across this river to Hell. In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon (in Greek, Χάρων &mdash the bright) was the Ferryman of Hades

Modern references

• Acheron was an empire ruled by sorcerer-kings predating the time of Conan the Barbarian by three millennia in Robert E. Howard's fictional Hyborian Age. Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian, from the name of his homeland Cimmeria) is a Fictional character often associated with Robert Ervin Howard ( January 22 1906 &ndash June 11 1936) was an American pulp writer of Fantasy, The Hyborian Age is a phrase used by author Robert E Howard to refer to a specific epoch in a fictional timeline used for many of the Low fantasy tales of his [1]
• Acheron (earlier known as LV-426) is the name of the fictitious moon where the Alien was first encountered by humans in the movie Alien (1979) of the Alien Series, and where the movie Aliens was set. LV-426 is a fictitious planetoid appearing in the films Alien (1979 and Aliens (1986 The alien, also called the xenomorph, or a thing and by Ellen Ripley in a deleted scene from Alien³. Alien is a 1979 science fiction / Horror film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Sigourney Weaver. This article is about the film for the video games see Aliens (Square computer game and Aliens (arcade game.
• The main river that divides the city of Dis in the novel The Lost Kings is named Acheron.
• In Jasper Fforde's the Eyre Affair, the villain is named Acheron Hades. Jasper Fforde (born in London on 11 January, 1961) is an English Novelist. The Eyre Affair, published in 2001, is the first novel published by Jasper Fforde.
• Hungarian black metal band Bornholm has a song called Acheron.
• A famous fencing group in Czech Republic is called Acheron
• Acheron is the leader of the Dark Hunters in Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter series. [2]
• Acheron is the name of the French privateer man of war that is chased after by the H. A privateer was a private Warship authorized by a country's Government by Letters of marque to attack foreign shipping A man-of-war (also man of war, man-o'-war or simply man) is an armed naval vessel M. S. Surprise in the film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
• In T. S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men", Acheron is probably the river mentioned in Part IV. Master and Commander The Far Side of the World is a 2003 Film directed by Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, with Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965 was a poet Dramatist, and Literary critic. The Hollow Men (1925 is a major poem by T S Eliot, a Nobel Prize winning modernist poet

• In the book God's Demon by Wayne Barlowe, the Hellish city of Adamantinarx is built upon a river called the Acheron. Wayne Douglas Barlowe (born January 6, 1958 in Glen Cove New York) is a Science fiction and Fantasy painter.
• A devastated planet known as Acheron plays a starring role in the storyline of the Xbox 360 video game Project Sylpheed. The Xbox 360 is the second Video game console produced by Microsoft, and was developed in cooperation with IBM, ATI, and SiS. also known as Project Sylpheed Arc of Deception in North America is a space simulation Console game developed by SETA and published by
• Acheron is the name of an immortal hero in the Dark-Hunter Series by Sherrilyn Kenyon.
• The Pit of Acheron is mentioned in Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 1
• Acheron is the plane of giant cubes and other polyhedrons in the Planescape campaign of the role playing game Dungeons and Dragons. Planescape is a Campaign setting Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a Fantasy Role-playing game (RPG originally designed by See also Acheron (Dungeons & Dragons)
• In the RPG Golden Sun for the Gameboy Advance, there is a weapon known as the Darksword which unleashes an effect known as Acheron's Grief