Cocytus
deity underworld Greek corroborated · 3
Cocytus is an underworld river deity who, according to the third century BC poet Euphorion of Chalcis, was the only one to wash the wounds of Adonis. This suggests a connection between Cocytus and the death or afterlife journey of Adonis.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 1500 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Referenced by third century BC poet Euphorion of Chalcis in connection with washing Adonis's wounds.
Relationships
- aspect of
- Styx
- co occurs with
- Phlegeton, phoenixes, Aphrodite, Adonis, Alphesiboea, Cinyras, Metharme, Oceanus, Demeter
- allied with
- Acheron
Mentioned by
Sources
encyclopedia (1)
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“The third century BC poet Euphorion of Chalcis remarked in his Hyacinth that 'Only Cocytus washed the wounds of Adonis'.”
#22847 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Styx, along with the underworld rivers Cocytus and Acheron, were associated with waterways in the upper world...to water the swamps of Styx and feed the rasping currents of Cocytus.”
#37379 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Among them are the celebrated Acheron and Cocytus of antiquity.”
#44646 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free