This article concerns the Greek river. For other uses, see Acheron . | basin_countries = Greece | length = 58 km | elevation = | discharge = | watershed = }}The Acheron () is a river located in the Epirus region of northwest Greece. It flows into the Ionian Sea in Ammoudia, near Parga. In mythology In ancient Greek mythology, Acheron was known as the river of pain, and was one of the five rivers of the Greek underworld. In the Homeric poems the Acheron was described as a river of Hades, into which Cocytus and Phlegethon both flowed.Homer, The Odyssey x. 513Pausanias, Description of Greece i. 17, § 5 Virgil called it the principal river of Tartarus, from which the Styx and Cocytus both sprang.Virgil, Aeneid vi. 297 The newly-dead would be ferried across the Acheron by Charon in order to enter the Underworld.Virgil, Aeneid 6. 323

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