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referred to the river in his poem "Spleen", published posthumously in 1869. The final line is "Où coule au lieu de sang l'eau verte du Léthé" which one translator renders as "... in whose veins flows the green water of Lethe ..." (the reference offers a few more
English translations). Baudelaire also
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was originally named "Lethe" by local Greek and
Phoenician colonists who, about to go to war, solved instead their differences by diplomacy and named the river Lethe to forever forget their former differences. When the Arabs conquered the region much later, their name for the river became Guadalete
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sought to dispose of the myth, as it impeded his military campaigns in the area. He was said to have personally crossed the Lima, and then called his soldiers from the other side, one by one, by name. The soldiers, astonished that their general remembered their names, crossed the river as well
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used "lēthē" to symbolize not only the "concealment of Being" or "forgetting of Being", but also the "concealment of concealment", which he saw as a major problem of modern philosophy. Examples are found in his books on
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Chinese Mythology, who would wait on the Bridge of Forgetfulness to serve dead souls soup which would erase their memories before they were reincarnated.
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would give some shades (the Greek term for ghosts or spirits) a password to tell Hades's servants which would allow them to drink instead from the
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Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928.
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depicts genderless figures surrounding a woman dipping her foot into the river of forgetfulness.
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without fear. This act proved that the Lima was not as dangerous as the local myths described.
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1903, depicts the goddess Lethe asleep upon a bed of poppies and a truncated tree.
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1133:, iii, 1;
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610:Republic
340:Odysseus
330:Heracles
325:Dionysus
311:Visitors
292:Tantalus
287:Sisyphus
267:Danaïdes
244:Tartarus
202:Asphodel
174:Thanatos
94:Cerberus
1252:Le Leth
1036:at the
997:Meng Po
903:" and "
849:Inferno
826:cantica
818:In the
673:Meng Po
646:Boeotia
577:Orpheus
541:Elysium
537:Statius
525:Cocytus
521:Acheron
360:Theseus
345:Orpheus
214:Elysium
209:Cocytus
204:Meadows
197:Acheron
179:Zagreus
134:Melinoë
109:Erinyes
79:Angelos
18:Lethean
1345:Strabo
1302:Hesiod
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873:Hamlet
854:Comedy
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777:Virgil
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557:Aeneid
484:Hypnos
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335:Hermes
320:Aeneas
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129:Hypnos
124:Hecate
104:Charon
74:Aeacus
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277:Ocnus
272:Ixion
229:Lethe
164:Pluto
144:Minos
119:Hades
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1279:ISBN
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