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👤 Charon (boatman)

  • <span class="a type-11352" data-type_id="11352" data-object_id="11321589" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-11352_11321589">🎨 Wall Painting of Odysseus in the Underworld in the Lesche of the Cnidians, Delphi, by Polygnotos (LIMC Nekyia 6)</span>
  • Information
    boatman of the underworld
    Wikidata
    https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6612
    Trismegistos
    https://www.trismegistos.org/name/2606
    Digital LIMC
    https://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/1/080E/HVSHu33sR=2rtrlKUiAJzwI
    Eponym of
    🏛️ the Cave of Charon (Thymbria)  🏛️ the Cave of Charon (Acharaca)
    Related Entities
    👤 Agamemnon  👤 Aiacos  👤 Aigisthos  👤 Alcestis  👤 Atropos  👤 Cassandra  👤 Cerberos (dog)  👤 Clotho  👤 Clytaimnestra  👥 the Erinyes  👤 Eurydice (w. of Orpheus) 👤 Hades  🌍 the Underworld  👤 Hermes  👤 Theseus  👤 Peirithous (Lapith)  👤 Hecate (goddess) 👥 the Moirai  👤 Protesilaos  🌍 River Styx (Underworld)  🌍 Hermion (Argolid)  🌍 River Acheron (Underworld)  🏛️ the Cave of Charon (Thymbria)  🏛️ the Cave of Charon (Acharaca)
    Mentioned by
    📖 Euripides, Alcestis 238-279 📖 Pausanias 10.28.1-10.28.6 📖 Minyad fr. 1 West 📖 Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead 2.1 MacLeod 📖 Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead 6.1 MacLeod 📖 Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead 14.1 MacLeod 📖 Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead 20.1 MacLeod 📖 Lucian, Heracles 1 📖 Lucian, On Funerals 3 📖 Lucian, Menippus, or the Descent into Hades 10 📖 Lucian, The Downward Journey, or the Tyrant 1-4 📖 Lucian, Charon, or the Inspectors 1 📖 Lucian, The Lover of Lies 25 📖 Euripides, Alcestis 326–365 📖 Euripides, Alcestis 435-475 📖 Strabo 14.1.11 📖 Strabo 14.1.44-14.1.45 📖 Vergil, Georgics 4.453-4.527 📖 Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead 25.4 MacLeod 📖 Lucian, Demonax 45 📖 Callimachus, Iambi 1 = fr. 191-191b Pfeiffer 📖 Callimachus fr. 628 Pfeiffer 📖 Callimachus, Hecale fr. 99 Hollis
    Mentioned in Text
    Minyad Pausanias Euripides, Alcestis Strabo Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead Lucian, Heracles Lucian, On Funerals Lucian, Menippus, or the Descent into Hades Lucian, Demonax Lucian, The Downward Journey, or the Tyrant Lucian, Charon, or the Inspectors Lucian, The Lover of Lies Callimachus Vergil, Georgics Callimachus, Iambi Callimachus, Hecale
    Depictions
    🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa del Criptoportico I 6, 2, Pompeii (PALP r1-i6-p2-space-22) 🎨 Roman Marble Sarcophagus (Gregoriano Profano 10450; ASR II, no. 155, pl. 54) 🎨 Roman Marble Sarcophagus (Vatican 2465; ASR III, no. 3, no. 423)
    Reported depictions
    🎨 Wall Painting of Odysseus in the Underworld in the Lesche of the Cnidians, Delphi, by Polygnotos (LIMC Nekyia 6)
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