Word: styx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Northward the steep world rises to Scythia And south of Libya descends, where black Styx and the lowest of the dead look...
...with a cast of sewer rats. Her most persistent theme: a lament over man's inhumanity to beasts. As a thoughtful cat tells a shepherd dog in a message from the realm of the dead: "Beware of death: tell them [those-who-walk-on-two-paws] that the Styx will roll along their white skulls in the infernal regions while the animals on the shores howl with...
...Greeks. Hector, whose parents were merely human, had human virtues: tenderness, loyalty, bravery. Achilles, whose mother was a sea nymph, had the vices of the superman: cruelty, arrogance, self-indulgence. However, he was invulnerable, except in his heel. His mother had dipped him, as a child, in the River Styx, but had neglected to submerge the heel she held...
Across the Styx. Toward the last, Rice stopped following the champions down the fairways and into the dugouts. But he loved to go out and bet on the ponies, and though the rest of the rhymesters and paragraphers had largely disappeared from the newspapers, he kept up his occasional verse. After many of his friends had died, he wrote a characteristic verse to Charon, the boatman of the Styx...
...would like a long vacation Your reservation I'll quickly fix-You'll simply love my old plantation Way down upon the River Styx...