![]() "One thing alone distresses him in Akheron (Acheron): not that he left the sun behind and found there the halls of Lethe."Īpollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1. Greek Lyric III) (Greek lyric C6th to C5th B.C.) : Poets often used Lethe as a metaphor for the underworld in general. The shades of the dead were required to drink from its water in order to forget their earthly life. Also known as the Ameles Potamos (River of Unmindfulness), the river flowed around the cave of Hypnos where its murmuring induces drowsiness. The River Lethe flowed through the plain of Lethe in Hades. "Thanatos (Death), and Lethe (Forgetfulness) with oblivious stream, mankind thy genuine brothers justly deem." Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.ĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES THE RIVER-GOD LETHE A river in the lower world likewise bore the name of Lethe. LETHE (Lêthê), the personification of oblivion, is called by Hesiod ( Theog. The river-goddess Lethe was sometimes identified with the daimona Lethe, forgetfulness personified. The other four rivers of the underworld were the Styx, Akheron (Acheron), Pyriphlegethon and Kokytos (Cocytus). ![]() According to some it formed the border between gloomy Haides and the paradise realm of Elysion (Elysium). ![]() The shades of the dead drank of its waters to forget their mortal lives. LETHE was the underworld river of oblivion and its goddess. ![]()
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