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Charon and Psyche (1883), a pre-Raphaelite interpretation of the myth by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope. Charon's obol is an allusive term for the coin placed in or on the mouth [1] of a dead person before burial.
Attic red-figure lekythos attributed to the Tymbos painter showing Charon welcoming a soul into his boat, c. 500–450 BC. In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon (/ ˈ k ɛər ɒ n,-ən / KAIR-on, -ən; Ancient Greek: Χάρων) is a psychopomp, the ferryman of the Greek underworld.
The Ferryman is a 2023 dystopian fiction novel by Justin Cronin. The protagonist, Proctor Bennett, is a titular "ferryman", responsible for transporting elderly citizens to be reborn. Proctor gradually realizes that his utopian life is not what it seems. The Ferryman is Cronin's first novel since 2016's The City of Mirrors.
The Ferryman is a 2017 play by Jez Butterworth. Set during The Troubles , it tells the story of the family of a former IRA volunteer, living in their farmhouse in rural County Armagh , Northern Ireland in 1981.
The Ferryman won the 2017 Evening Standard Award for Best Play, the 2018 Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play, the 2018 WhatsOnStage Award for Best New Play, and the 2018 Olivier Award for Best New Play. [30] It has played for over 350 performances at the Gielgud Theatre and transferred to Broadway in October 2018.
A ferryman is the person who operates a ferry. Ferryman or The Ferryman may also refer to: The Ferryman, an episode of Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future; The Ferryman, a 2007 New Zealand film; The Ferryman, a film by Jiajia Zhang; The Ferryman, a 2017 play by Jez Butterworth "The Ferryman" (song), a folk ballad
Who Pays the Ferryman? is a television series produced by the BBC in 1977. The title of the series alludes to the ancient religious belief and mythology surrounding Charon, the ferryman to Hades. In antiquity, it was customary to place coins in or on the mouth of the deceased before cremation, symbolizing payment for the ferryman's service to ...
The song has a number of religious references: "The ferryman" refers to Charon the ferryman in Greek mythology. ("Save yourself a penny for the ferryman": tradition dictated that a dead Greek would have a coin placed in his mouth to pay for passage over the River Styx, as Charon demanded payment to ferry souls across the Styx, and without payment, souls would be forever trapped upon the shores ...