styx
Speech parts
1. styx - Noun
2. Styx - Proper noun
Meaning
The principal river of the lower world, which had to be crossed in passing to the regions of the dead.
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As an infant, Archilles was plunged in the River Styx by his mother Thetis (also see 17 Thetis), thus rendering his body invulnerable excepting the heel by which he was held.
Behind the inner ring were Coastal Defense Force personnel operating naval shore batteries of Styx missiles and guns, backed by ground force units deployed in depth.
Beyond Charon there are four much smaller circumbinary moons, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra.
Humorous fantasies narrated in a "gentleman's club" setting are common; they include John Kendrick Bangs ' A Houseboat on the Styx (1895), Lord Dunsany 's " Jorkens " stories, and Maurice Richardson 's The Exploits of Englebrecht (1950).
;Film * The novel is mentioned a few times in Billy Wilder 's film The Seven Year Itch (1955) ;Music * Dorian Gray is referred in the American band Styx (band) song "Sing for the Day" ("Pieces of Eight", 1978).
Hypnos made her swear by the river Styx and call on gods of the underworld to be witnesses so that he would be ensured that he would marry Pasithea.