Editing Styx (section)

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In the ''[[Homeric Hymns|Homeric Hymn]]'' 2 ''to Demeter'' Persephone names Styx as one of her "frolicking" [[Oceanid]]-companions when she was abducted by [[Hades]].<ref>Gantz, p. 29; ''[[Homeric Hymns|Homeric Hymn]]'' 2 ''to Demeter'', [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/homeric_hymns_2_demeter/2003/pb_LCL496.65.xml 418&ndash;423].</ref>

According to the ''[[Achilleid]]'', written by the Roman poet [[Statius]] in the 1st century AD, when [[Achilles]] was born his mother [[Thetis]] tried to make him immortal by dipping him in the river Styx; however, he was left vulnerable at the part of the body by which she held him: his left heel.<ref>Burgess, [https://books.google.com/books?id=76n_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA9 p. 9]; [[Statius]], ''[[Achilleid]]'' [https://archive.org/details/statiuswithengli02statuoft/page/518/mode/2up?view=theater 1.133&ndash;134], [https://archive.org/details/statiuswithengli02statuoft/page/528/mode/2up?view=theater 269&ndash;270], [https://archive.org/details/statiuswithengli02statuoft/page/544/mode/2up?view=theater 480&ndash;481]; compare with [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#107 107] which says that Achilles' heel "was said to be vulnerable" but with no mention of him being dipped in the river Styx.</ref> And so [[Paris (mythology)|Paris]] was able to kill Achilles  during the [[Trojan War]] by shooting an arrow into his heel.

In the second-century ''[[The Golden Ass|Metamorphoses]]'' of [[Apuleius]], one of the impossible trials which [[Venus (mythology)|Venus]] imposed on [[Psyche (mythology)|Psyche]] was to fetch water from the Styx.<ref>Tripp, s.v. Psyche; [[James George Frazer|Frazer]] on Pausanias [https://archive.org/details/pausaniassdescr01pausgoog/page/n274/mode/2up?view=theater 8.17.6]; [[Apuleius]], ''[[The Golden Ass|Metamorphoses]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/apuleius-metamorphoses/1989/pb_LCL044.277.xml 6.13].</ref> Apuleius has the water guarded by fierce dragons (''dracones''), and from the water itself came fearsome cries of deadly warning. The sheer impossibility of her task caused Psyche to become senseless, as if turned into stone.<ref>[[Apuleius]], ''[[The Golden Ass|Metamorphoses]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/apuleius-metamorphoses/1989/pb_LCL044.277.xml 6.14].</ref> Jupiter's eagle admonishes Psyche saying:
{{blockquote|Do you ... really expect to be able to steal, or even touch, a single drop from that holiest—and cruelest—of springs? Even the gods and Jupiter himself are frightened of these Stygian waters. You must know that, at least by hearsay, and that, as you swear by the powers of the gods, so the gods always swear by the majesty of the Styx.<ref>[[Apuleius]], ''[[The Golden Ass|Metamorphoses]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/apuleius-metamorphoses/1989/pb_LCL044.279.xml 6.15].</ref>}}