Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A river of fire, one of the five rivers of Hades.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Class Myth.) One of the principal rivers of Hades, in the channel of which fire flowed instead of water.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun Greek mythology A
river offire , one of the five rivers ofHades .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Phlegethon.
Examples
-
'Phlegethon' was the 'burning' river of the lower world.
The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor 70 BC-19 BC Virgil 1902
-
Kingcrow Reveals New Album, "Phlegethon," Details Online posted Feb 14, 2010 at 7: 28 PM by zMETALlica.
-
Kingcrow Reveals New Album, "Phlegethon," Details Online posted Feb 14, 2010 at 7: 28 PM by zMETALlica.
-
Kingcrow Reveals New Album, "Phlegethon," Details Online posted Feb 14, 2010 at 7: 28 PM by zMETALlica.
-
I'd presume that Tartarus could be conceived of as a vast volcanic cave filled with tufa though, hence the Tartarean river, Phlegethon, the river of fire lava.
The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone 2009
-
One last thing - at CIFO (Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation), located in a renovated building near unfashionable downtown Miami, I saw a video, Phlegethon-Milczenie, which showed the Polish artist Monika Weiss thrashing on top of a pile of books.
-
The following lines from the “Troad” (chorus of act ii.), in which Pluto, Cerberus, Phlegethon, Styx, etc., are treated like dreams and childish tales, were repeated in the theatre of
-
St. Clement, disturbed by this doubt and wishing to know whether the world was eternal or had been created — whether there were a Tartarus and a Phlegethon, an Ixion and a Tantalus, etc., resolved to go into Egypt to learn necromancy, but having heard of St. Bartholomew, who was preaching
-
Et Chaos, et Phlegethon! loca nocte silentia late!
-
But these and such like testimonies others reject, as fables, illusions of spirits, and they will have no such local known place, more than Styx or Phlegethon, Pluto's court, or that poetical Infernus, where Homer's soul was seen hanging on a tree, &c., to which they ferried over in
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.