Charon
Role: ferryman · First appears: Book 10 · Chapter 28
In Book 10, Chapter 28, Charon admitted the living Theseus and Pirithous into the boat reserved for the dead, though “Unwillingly did old Charon admit these living persons into his boat meant for the use of the dead.” Polygnotus represented him as old.
In Chapter 38, Charon, son of Pytheus, said that the works in question were composed by Carcinus, a native of Naupactus.
Relationship record
Life events
- Charon admitted the living Theseus and Pirithous into the boat reserved for the dead.(Book 10 · Chapter 28 · 📍 Acheron)
Book 10 · Chapter 28
- with Polygnotus (Polygnotus represented Charon in the painting.) “Polygnotus has accordingly represented Charon as old.”
- with Theseus (Charon admits Theseus into his boat.) “Polygnotus has followed (I think) here the description, in the poem called the Minyad, about Theseus and Pirithous. ‘Unwillingly did old Charon admit these living persons into his boat meant for the use of the dead.’”
- with Pirithous (Charon admits Pirithous into his boat.) “Polygnotus has followed (I think) here the description, in the poem called the Minyad, about Theseus and Pirithous. ‘Unwillingly did old Charon admit these living persons into his boat meant for the use of the dead.’”
Book 10 · Chapter 38
- parent: Pytheus “but Charon the son of Pytheus says they were composed by Carcinus a native of Naupactus.”
- with Carcinus (Charon attributes the Poems called Naupactian to Carcinus.) “but Charon the son of Pytheus says they were composed by Carcinus a native of Naupactus.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.