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Twice.ĭo say: 'Beware Greeks bearing bottles of Peloponnesian mineral water.'ĭon't say: 'OK, quote me the opening lines of the Theogony. The rivers Acheron, Cocytus, Lethe, Phlegethon, and Styx all converge at the centre of the underworld on a great marsh, which sometimes is also called the Styx. The river Styx possesses a dual nature, bearing corrosive properties and miraculous powers throughout. The rivers Styx, Phlegethon, Acheron and Cocytus all converge at the center of the underworld on a great marsh, which is also sometimes called the Styx. You'll just have to take my word for it that I know who Hesiod is, and have read his Theogony. In Greek mythology, Styx ( / stks / Ancient Greek: stks) is a goddess and a river that forms the boundary between Earth (Gaia) and the Underworld. Styx is a river that forms the boundary between Earth and the Greek and Roman underworlds. In Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, the gods swear by the water of the Styx as their most binding oath. The word styx literally means shuddering and expresses loathing of death. How do we know the Styx is derived from the Mavroneri? From the description in Hesiod's Theogony. Styx, in Greek mythology, one of the rivers of the underworld. How watertight is the theory? Decidedly leaky. Who's Pliny the Elder? The uncle of Pliny the Younger. Alcohol poisoning is one theory, and there are plenty of others – septicemia, pancreatitis, malaria, typhoid, West Nile fever – but Mayor and Hayes prefer Pliny the Elder's hypothesis that Alexander was poisoned.

Sounds like he had one vodka shot too many. Hannah and the rest of the team race against the clock to rescue Pride from the Apollyon leader and to not reveal confidential information.

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Who's Alexander the Great? Jesus! Don't they teach anything in schools any more? He was the Macedonian king who conquered half the world before dying, aged just 32, a prolonged and agonising death after a night's binge drinking with his chums in downtown Babylon in 323BC. The River Styx (Part II) is the twenty-fourth episode of the fifth season finale of the police procedural series NCIS: New Orleans which was aired on May 14, 2019. The Styx is based on a real stream and waterfall called the Mavroneri (AKA 'Black Water') in the Peloponnese, and two American researchers, historian Adrienne Mayor and toxicologist Antoinette Hayes, have just published an academic paper arguing that the Styx/Mavroneri contained a deadly bacterium and that water from it may have been used to poison Alexander the Great. If they lied, Zeus made them drink the poisonous waters, which instantly immobilised them. 75-mile nature trail guides you through the mature forests of River Styx Park and provides great opportunities for bird watching. Mythical isn't it? Something to do with the Greeks? The Styx is, indeed, part of Greek mythology: the river separating earth from the Underworld, across which Charon ferried the souls of the dead, and the place where the gods swore sacred oaths.

What does that mean? Dark, gloomy, infernal, hellish, almost as murky as the Mersey basically.

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