Talk:Styx (mythology)

"In the sticks" is slang for a rural location in American English and now (it seems) in British English as well. To my knowledge, it does not refer to the river Styx, but perhaps to the fact that rural locations are generally forested. Therefore, I have removed the piece about the use of this phrase in British English. If you can cite a reliable source for Styx as the origin of this phrase, feel free to reinclude with the citation. AliaGemma 02:37, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Acheron vs. Styx (mythology) .... I see references to both vis a vis where Charon plied his trade. Can someone provide evidence one way or the other (Wikipedia itself seems in conflict). dml 03:08, 8 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

There is no Charon, there is no Acheron, there is no Styx. They are fictional. Accordingly, different authors have created different fictional geographies of Hell, and there's thus no single "correct" answer. Vergil has Charon ferry souls across the river Styx in book VI of the Aeneid; Dante has Charon ferry souls across the river Acheron in canto III of the Inferno. Other authors make their own choices; generally Styx in the period before Dante wrote, and Acheron afterwards, but no hard-and-fast rule. - Nunh-huh 20:40, 8 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]