The statue had never had a name before, she said. "It was always just ‘river otter,'" and why the person who returned the statue chose that one is as much a mystery as why it was taken in the ...

In Greek mythology, the River Styx forms a border between the underworld and the world of the living. Charon, the ferryman, would collect payment from souls to transport them to the far side, and some ...

Michelle Kulwicki. Page Street, $18.99 (384p) ISBN 979-8-89003-960-6 Zan has been leading marked souls to the Styx to be consumed after death in service to the Ferryman for 499 years.

A n obolus is a small silver coin the Greeks placed under the tongues of the dead so they could pay Charon as he ferried them across the river Styx to the underworld. Andrew Rickard named his Montreal ...