By

Rudolf J. Siebert and Karen Shoup-Pilarski

Western Michigan University

2021

Picture o­n Book Cover. 

Throughout themythology of the Greek Religion of Fate and Beauty, particularly in Homer'sOdyssey and Iiliad,the souls of the heroes,as, e.g., of Odysseus, Achilleus, Aeneas, Dionysos, Heracles, Hermes, Orpheus, Pirithous, Psyche, Theseus and Sisyphus, etc. journeyed to the underworld, and returned, still alive, conveyed by the boat of Charon, or Kharon (Greek Χάρων),the ferryman of Hades. In the picture o­n the book cover above, Charon carries a soul of a newly deceased person across the rivers Styx and Acheron, that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead,the Hades.

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