Charon

Role: ferryman of the dead · First appears: Euripides, Alcestis — Scene 2

Euripides, Alcestis — Scene 3

• with Alcestis (Charon is the ferryman associated with Alcestis's passage to the underworld.) “But if the tongue of Orpheus and his strain were mine, so that invoking with hymns the daughter of Ceres or her husband, I could receive thee from the shades below, I would descend, and neither the dog of Pluto, nor Charon at his oar, the ferryman of departed spirits, should stay me before I brought thy life to the light.”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.