What is the Styx?
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The river of the underworld
It separates the living from the dead.
💡 Did you know? Charon ferries the souls across here.
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For what was the water of the Styx especially important?
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For the oaths of the gods
An oath by the Styx was unbreakable.
💡 Did you know? Even Zeus was not allowed to break it.
Which hero did the Styx make almost invulnerable?
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Achilles
His mother dipped him in the river.
💡 Did you know? The dip in the Styx is attested only after Homer, for instance in the poet Statius.
To which mythology does the Styx belong?
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Greek mythology
It is the best known of the underworld rivers.
💡 Did you know? Others are Acheron, Lethe and Phlegethon.
How many times does the Styx wind around the underworld according to Virgil?
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Nine times
In nine coils it encircles the realm of the dead.
💡 Did you know? Nine is everywhere in underworld myth.
What punishment struck gods who broke a Styx oath?
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Nine years of banishment
Before that they lay breathless for a “great year”.
💡 Did you know? So reports Hesiod's Theogony.
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