![]() these must needs be thrown into Tartaros, and when they have been there a year the wave casts them out, the homicides by way of Kokytos, those who have outraged their parents by way of Pyriphlegethon. Those who are curable, but are found to have committed great sin. Now when the dead have come to the place where each is led by his genius ( daimon), first they are judged and sentenced. And the name of this river, as the Poets say, is Kokytos (Cocytus). And the water of this river also mingles with no other water, but this also passes round in a circle and falls into Tartaros opposite Pyriphlegethon. And when the river has flowed in here and has received fearful powers into its waters, it passes under the earth and, circling round in the direction opposed to that of Pyriphlegethon, it meets it coming from the other way in the Akherousian Lake. Opposite this the fourth river issues, it is said, first into a wild and awful place, which is all of a dark blue color, like lapis lazuli. This is called the Stygios (Stygian River), and the lake which it forms by flowing in is the Styx. The fourth river issues, it is said, first into a wild and awful place, which is all of a dark blue color, like lapis lazuli. ![]() " streams are many and great and of all sorts, but among the many are four streams, the greatest and outermost of which is that called Okeanos (Oceanus), which flows round in a circle, and opposite this, flowing in the opposite direction, is Akheron (Acheron), which flows through various desert places and, passing under the earth, comes to the Akherousian (Acherusian) Lake. be swept on the wind to Kokytos' (Cocytus) destined flood!" "Since God hastens the deed so urgently, let the whole race of Laios (Laeus). " ‘Skamandros (Scamander), my native stream! Upon your banks in bygone days, unhappy maid, was I nurtured with fostering care but now by Kokytos (Cocytus) and the banks of Akheron (Acheron) ( okhthai kakherousioi), I think, I soon must chant my prophecies.’" At the entrance there, the stream of Akheron (Acheron) is joined by the waters of Pyriphlegethon and of a branch of Styx, Kokytos (Cocytus), and there is a rock where the two loud-roaring rivers meet.’"Īeschylus, Agamemnon 1156 ff (trans. " ‘Beach the vessel beside deep-eddying Okeanos (Oceanus) and pass on foot to the dank domains of Haides. "Mint (Mintha), men say, was once a maid beneath the earth, a Nymphe of Kokytos (Cocytus), and she lay in the bed of Aidoneus. No, you say, we must draw the line at that well then, Orcus is not a god either." "Orcus is also a god and the fabled streams of the lower world, Acheron, Cocytus and Pyriphlegethon, and also Charon and also Cerberus are to be deemed gods. Presumably OKEANOS like the other Rivers OFFSPRINGĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES THE RIVER-GOD COCYTUSĬicero, De Natura Deorum 3. The other four rivers of Haides were the Styx, Akheron, Pyriphlegethon and Lethe. KOKYTOS (Cocytus) was the underworld river of wailing and its god.
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