Abstract
The earliest Greek narrative of descent into the underworld (as opposed to summoning the dead among the living) is in a comedy, Aristophanes’ Frogs, performed in 405 BC. Dionysus “himself”, wearing a lion skin over his saffron robe travels there to bring back the recently deceased Euripides, and Charon, ferryman of the dead, whose name Diodorus Siculus (1, 96, 8) claims is Egyptian for “boatman”, makes his stage debut. If Charon is a stock figure in comedy, as is sometimes assumed, his presen...
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