Styx

[ US /ˈstɪks/ ]
NOUN
  1. (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which Charon carried dead souls
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How To Use Styx In A Sentence

  • Thetis gives birth to a son, Achilles, whom she attempts to make immortal by dipping him in the magical waters of the River Styx.
  • This hidden civilization, beautiful and unforgiving, is dominated by a sinister, vicious race called the Styx, who have presided over generations of enslaved colonists. SPLICE Director Vincenzo Natali Digs Potential New Franchise TUNNELS – Collider.com
  • I am in the musty storage bow of a sailless schooner on the murky waters of the river Styx.
  • It just so happens that Styx is one of my all time favorite bands. May 2010
  • There’s a solid and well defined idea at the heart of the story, and understanding the Styx is the key to it. Splice Director Vincenzo Natali Digs Tunnels | /Film
  • If there be “ut sapientibus placit, ” and equine elysium, I will send to Charon the brass coin, the fee for Dick’s passage over, and on the other side of the Styx in those shadowy clover-fields he may nibble blossoms forever. Haskell's Account of the Battle of Gettysburg. Paras. 126-146
  • Also we shall have to reject all the terrible and appalling names which describe the world below — Cocytus and Styx, ghosts under the earth, and sapless shades, and any similar words of which the very mention causes a shudder to pass through the inmost soul of him who hears them. The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett
  • Then I pressed in amongst them nigh unto the biere, and got upon a stone to see this mysterie, and behold incontinently the dead body began to receive spirit, his principall veines did moove, his life came again and he held up his head and spake in this sort: Why doe you call mee backe againe to this transitorie life, that have already tasted of the water of Lethe, and likewise been in the deadly den of Styx? The Golden Asse
  • Our manager's idea, which we turned into a multimedia spectacle, makes it sort of like Styx is channeling Pink Floyd performing Styx music -- I believe it has that impact on the audience. Mike Ragogna: The Joy of Regeneration: A Conversation with Styx's James "J.Y." Young
  • A new polytypic species of the genus Uromastyx Merrem 1820 (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae: Leiolepidinae) from southwestern Arabia - Thomas M. Wilms and Andreas Schmitz Archive 2007-01-01
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