About 10 results for ‘Charon (mythology)’
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Charon (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon 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. 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, Dante, Dionysus and Psyche — journey to the underworld and return, still alive, conveyed by the boat of Charon.
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CARON PASSANT LES OMBRES
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Allegory
- Charon (mythology)
- Death
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- Date:
- 18th century
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Vitrail de la Galerie de Psyché au château de Chantilly, ...
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- Field(s):
- Photography
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- Portrayed subject:
- Charon (mythology)
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Gustave Moreau
- John Flaxman
Caron d'après Flaxman
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Charon (mythology)
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Antoine Coypel
Orphée charme Charon aux Enfers
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Date:
- 17th century
- 18th century
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Caron passant le Styx
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- Field(s):
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Beard
- Charon (mythology)
- Old age
- Swagger stick
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- Date:
- 19th century
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Caron
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- Field(s):
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Charon (mythology)
- Nudity
- Oar (sport rowing)
- Water
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- Date:
- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- School of Fontainebleau
Histoire de Psyché (33) : Psyché aborde la barque de Charon
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- Field(s):
- Architecture
- Decorative arts
- Stained glass
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- Portrayed subject:
- Charon (mythology)
- Greek underworld
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Les Enfers
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Architecture
- Cadaver
- Cave
- Cerberus
- Charon (mythology)
- Death
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- Date:
- 17th century
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