Phlegethon

• The Greek Underworld
  Residents:
  Persephone *Hades *Minos *Aeacus	*Rhada- manthys *Charon *Cerberus
  Geography:
  *Acheron *Cocytus *Tartarus *Lethe	*Styx *Phlegethon *Asphodel *Erebus
  Famous inmates:
  *Ixion *Sisyphus	*Tantalus *The Titans
  Related:
  *Greek mythology	*Greek religion

In Greek mythology, the river Phlegethon {"(river of) fire") was one of the five rivers of the underworld. It flowed with fire that burned but did not consume fuel. Some say that the river flows with boiling blood.

Virgil VI, 265, 551.