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Charon (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon ( or ; Greek Χάρων) is the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. A coin to pay Charon for passage, usually an obolus or danake, was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a dead person.〔Not on the eyes; all literary sources specify the mouth. Callimachus, ''Hecale'' fragment 278 in R. Pfeiffer's text ''Callimachus'' (Oxford UP, 1949), vol.2, p. 262; now ordered as fragment 99 by A.S.D. Hollis, in his edition, ''Callimachus: Hecale'' (Clarendon Press, Oxford 1990), pp. 284f., from the Suidas, English translation (online ), specifying the mouth, also ''Etymologicum Graecum'' ("Danakes"). See also Smith's ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', entry on "Charon" (online ) for placement in the mouth, though archaeology disproves Smith's statement that every corpse was given a coin; see article on Charon's obol.〕 Some authors say that those who could not pay the fee, or those whose bodies were left unburied, had to wander the shores for one hundred years. In the catabasis mytheme, heroes – such as Heracles, Orpheus, Aeneas, Theseus, Sisyphus, Dionysus, Odysseus and Psyche – journey to the underworld and return, still alive, conveyed by the boat of Charon.
==Genealogy==
He is the son of Nyx and Erebus.
Nyx and Erebus were brother and sister.
He was also the brother of Thanatos and Hypnos.
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