Oceanid

Styx

Στύξ

Roman: Styx

Overview

Goddess and personification of the river Styx.

Titan descendants

River, oath

Mother of Nike, Zelus, Kratos and Bia by Pallas.

Unknown or primordial.

Beyond Antiquity

Styx still appears in the modern world through language, science, medicine, astronomy or culture.

Today: Extremely dark, gloomy or infernal.

Stygian derives from Styx, the river and divine figure associated with the boundary of the Greek Underworld.

Today: A small moon of Pluto.

Styx is named after the mythological river separating the world of the living from the realm of the dead.

Crius and the Celestial Line
Consort of Pallas and mother of Nike, Zelus, Kratos and Bia