Category:Acheron servers

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General information
The Acheron (ˈækərən; Ἀχέρων, Acheron or Ἀχερούσιος Acherousios; Αχέροντας Acherontas) is a located in the  region of northwest Greece. It is 52 km (32 mi) long, and its drainage area is 705 km2 (272 sq mi). Its source is near the village, in the southwestern part of the and it flows into the  in , near.

Mythology
In ancient, Acheron was known as the "river of woe", and was one of the five rivers of the. In the poems, the Acheron was described as a river of, into which  and  both flowed.

The Roman poet called it the principal river of, from which the  and  both sprang. The newly dead would be ferried across the Acheron by in order to enter the Underworld. The describes the river as "a place of healing, not a place of punishment, cleansing and purging the sins of humans".

According to later traditions, Acheron had been a son of and either  or, who had been turned into the Underworld river bearing his name after he refreshed the  with drink during their contest with. By this myth, Acheron is also the father of by either  or.

The word is also occasionally used as a for Hades itself.

Potamoi
The river gods were the 3,000 sons of the great earth-encircling river and his wife  and the brothers of the. They were also the fathers of the. The river gods were depicted in one of three forms: a man-headed bull, a bull-headed man with the body of a serpent-like fish from the waist down, or as a reclining man with an arm resting upon an jug pouring water.

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