1666.) Charon was represented in the Lesche of Delphi by Polygnotus.
This notion of Charon seems to be of late origin, for it does not occur in any of the early poets of Greece. 764.) For this service he was paid by each shade with an obolus or danace, which coin was placed in the mouth of every dead body previous to its burial. Between the two figures are the tall reeds of the river."ĬHARON (Charôn), a son of Erebos, the aged and dirty ferryman in the lower world, who conveyed in his boat the shades of the dead-though only of those whose bodies were buried-across the rivers of the lower world. On the right is his passenger, a woman wearing a black chiton. In one hand he holds an oar, and with the other he steadies himself on the stern of his boat. He wears a red tunic (exomis) and conical hat ( pilos). Image right Perseus Project, July 2000 : "Charon, the ferryman, prepares to ferry a soul across the Acheron to Hades. His attribute was a large, double-headed mallet. He was depicted as a more repulsive creature with blue-grey skin, a tusked mouth, hooked nose and sometimes serpent-draped arms. The Etruscans of central Italy identified him with one of their own underworld daimones who was named Charun after the Greek figure. He was shown standing in his skiff holding a pole, about to receive a shade from Hermes Psykhopompos (Psychopomp). Kharon was depicted in ancient Greek art as an ugly, bearded man with a crooked nose, wearing a conical hat and tunic.
Those who had not received proper burial were unable to pay the fee and were left to wander the earthly side of the Akheron (Acheron), haunting the world as ghosts. His fee was a single obolos coin which was placed in the mouth of a corpse upon burial. Hermes Psykhopompos (Guide of the Dead) gathered the shades of the dead from the upper world and led them down to the shores of the Akherousian (Acherusian) mere in the underworld where Kharon transported them across the waters to Haides in his skiff.
KHARON (Charon) was the Ferryman of the Dead, an underworld daimon (spirit) in the service of King Haides. Fierce Brightness ( kharôn) Charon, Athenian red-figure lekythos C5th B.C., Rhode Island School of Design Museum
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