The Rivers of the Roman Underworld: Five Waters That Organized the Dead
Explore the five rivers of the Roman Underworld — Styx, Acheron, Cocytus, Phlegethon, and Lethe — and how they shaped the soul’s journey after death.
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The Roman Underworld: A Geography of the Dead
Virgil spent years writing Book VI of the *Aeneid* — the descent into the underworld — and the Romans treated it the way later ages treated Dante: as the authoritative map of what lay beneath. Here is what that map actually showed.