The Acheron River is in the Epirus region of Greece. The source of the river is near the village of Zotiko while it ends by draining into the Ionian Sea near Parga.
His name is Charon.
The name of the river of woe is Acheron :P
Dante faints when he cross the river.
Charon does not allow Dante to cross the Acheron river because he is a living being.
Charon is the only such god in Greek myth.
He is a river god that sided with the Titans against the gods. Zeus then turned him into water for the River Styx.
Charon is the ferryman of the rivers Styx and Acheron.
I flicked through Seneca and Plato, and while both vividly describe the swirling waters and boiling mud, neither makes any mention of living things in the Acheron.
the Acheron (river of woe), the Cocytus (river of lamentation), the Phlegethon (river of fire), the Styc (river of unbreakable oath by which the gods took vows), and the Lethe (river of forgetfulness).
Acheron, the river of pain. The River Styx is usually the one referred to that Charon ferries the dead across to the Underworld.
The Rivers of HadesThere are five rivers that separate Hades from the world of the living, they are: Acheron - the river of woeCocytus - the river of lamentationPhlegethon - the river of fireLethe - the river of forgetfulnessStyx - the river of hateSee the related link for more information.Styx is the most well known river that flows through Hades.The five rivers of the Realm of Hades, and their symbolic meanings, are Acheron (the river of sorrow, or woe), Cocytus (lamentation), Phlegethon (fire), Lethe (oblivion), and Styx (hate).
Transgression from Acheron was created in 1994.