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en-wikipedia-org-2282		Phlegethon - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2313	618	68	In Greek mythology, the river Phlegethon (Φλεγέθων, English translation: "flaming") or Pyriphlegethon (Πυριφλεγέθων, English translation: "fire-flaming") was one of the five rivers in the infernal regions of the underworld, along with the rivers Styx, Lethe, Cocytus, and Acheron. In Oedipus by Seneca the Younger, the first singing of the chorus, which mainly describes the plague that has settled in Thebes, includes the line, "Phlegethon has changed his course and mingled Styx with Theban streams." While this is not essential to the plot of the play, the line figuratively serves to suggest Death has become physically present in Thebes. In Dante's Inferno Phlegethon is described as a river of blood that boils souls. Dante and Virgil cross Phlegethon with help from Nessus. In Charles Wright's poem "Driving to Passalacqua, 1960", he likens driving along and crossing the Adige River in Verona, lit by the morning sun ("Fire on the water,/daylight striking its match"), to the Phlegethon: "Phlegethon/He must have crossed,/Dante, I mean,/His cloak like a net as he glided and stepped over the stones."[3] Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010)	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2282.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2282.txt