The Five Rivers Of The Greek Underworld Explainedas all rivers were in Greek myth
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The Roman poet Vergil depicts the Styx as the river over which the ferryman of the dead, Charon, ushers the souls of the dead
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The name "Acheron" means "pain," and in addition to being a river
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Pyriphlegethon in some sources — is the River of Fire, associated with the burning of funeral pyres and the punishment of the damned
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by Homer is the Cocytus, which is the River of Wailingthat Cocytus was the father of the nymph Minthe
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the river Lethe, also known as the River of Oblivionnew inhabitants of the realm of the dead would be made to drink from the Lethe in order to forget their mortal lives
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In the cosmology of Greek mythology, the Underworld, ruled by the god Hades, was one of the primary realms, together with the terrestrial world of the living and the celestial abode of the gods on Mount Olympus