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Phlegethon

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Phlegethon (flĕg`əthŏn): see Hades Hades , in Greek and Roman religion and mythology.

1 The ruler of the underworld: see Pluto.

2 The world of the dead, ruled by Pluto and Persephone, located either underground or in the far west beyond the inhabited regions.
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Phlegethon
river of liquid fire in Hades. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 699]
See : Fire
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In Greek mythology five rivers of the underworld are mentioned: Acheron, Cocytus, Lethe, Phlegethon (or Pyriphlegethon) and which other?
TIME OUT: Quiz of the Day by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
9 Where does the fiery Phlegethon flow into the Acheron?
50 for fun; Phil Brown's trivia quiz by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Jonathan Edwards' eighteenth-century "great and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath" (4)), owes a lot to Phlegethon but was reinforced by the latter-day Jewish idea of Gehenna as a place of torment in the afterlife (split off from Sheol, which is simply a place of departed spirits).
Hellenic damnation and other afterlives. (Classical Blather) by Humez, Nick / Verbatim
 
 
 
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