id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9029 Cocytus - Wikipedia .html text/html 2241 632 65 There are five rivers encircling Hades: the Styx, Phlegethon, Lethe, Acheron and Cocytus. Cocytus, along with the other rivers related to the underworld, was a common topic for ancient authors. Cocytus also makes an appearance in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost. The river is also mentioned in Rafael Sabatini's novel Captain Blood: His Odyssey, when Colonel Bishop's nemesis, Peter Blood, addresses him as follows: "And now, ye greasy hangman, step out as brisk and lively as ye can, and behave as naturally as ye may, or it's the black stream of Cocytus ye'll be contemplating."[4] In Inferno, the first cantica of Dante's Divine Comedy, Cocytus is the ninth and lowest circle of The Underworld. Dante describes Cocytus as being the home of traitors and those who committed acts of complex fraud. Dante's Divine Comedy Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010) Ancient Greek religion and mythology ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9029.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9029.txt