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the underworld's ferryman who takes cash before he takes you anywhere.
means a figure in greek mythology who ferries the souls of the dead across the river styx (or acheron) to the underworld, for a fee.
from from greek mythology, first named in texts around the 6th century bce; the fee was a single coin (an obol) placed under a corpse's tongue or on its eyes at burial, without which the soul wandered the riverbank for a hundred years.
payment requiredgreeks buried their dead with coin in mouth
named a moonpluto's largest moon is named after him
picky passengerrefused living visitors like aeneas and heracles
old and crankydepicted by virgil as a grim, ancient boatman
for instance
pluto's moon charon — discovered 1978, half the size of pluto itself
dante's inferno — charon appears in canto iii, refusing dante at first
aeneid book vi — aeneas bribes him with the golden bough