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In what is considered one of the greatest works in the history of European literature, Dante and Virgil travel to the Underworld, where they are taken across the River Styx to Hell by the ferryman Charon — in fact, two of Pluto's moons, Charon and Styx, are named after these details.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 11 May 2026
The ferryman jokes that the rubber has returned to its origins.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2026
What’s more, the ferrymen would take advantage of passengers.
—Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 9 Mar. 2026
Perhaps, like the poet A. E. Housman in The Invention of Love, Stoppard — gone now at 88, the cause unspecified — stands at this moment on the banks of the River Styx, waiting for the old ferryman Charon.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 11 May 2026
The ferryman jokes that the rubber has returned to its origins.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2026
What’s more, the ferrymen would take advantage of passengers.
—Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 9 Mar. 2026
Perhaps, like the poet A. E. Housman in The Invention of Love, Stoppard — gone now at 88, the cause unspecified — stands at this moment on the banks of the River Styx, waiting for the old ferryman Charon.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
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“Ferryman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ferryman. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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