He was shown standing in his skiff holding a pole, about to receive a shade from Hermes Psykhopompos (Psychopomp). Kharon was depicted in ancient Greek art as an ugly, bearded man with a crooked nose, wearing a conical hat and tunic. Those who had not received proper burial were unable to pay the fee and were left to wander the earthly side of the Akheron (Acheron), haunting the world as ghosts. His fee was a single obolos coin which was placed in the mouth of a corpse upon burial. Hermes Psykhopompos (Guide of the Dead) gathered the shades of the dead from the upper world and led them down to the shores of the Akherousian (Acherusian) mere in the underworld where Kharon transported them across the waters to Haides in his skiff. KHARON (Charon) was the Ferryman of the Dead, an underworld daimon (spirit) in the service of King Haides. Fierce Brightness ( kharĂ´n) Charon, Athenian red-figure lekythos C5th B.C., Rhode Island School of Design Museum
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