ferryman

Kentridge likens the captain to the ferryman, Charon, in Greek mythology transporting the dead across the river Styx to the underworld.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2025

This week, a different anticyclone, named for Hades’ ferryman, also drifted from North Africa toward Europe’s outer-region nations, consigning Italy to crisis mode.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2023

The Italian weather service said the island will be at the "epicentre" of next week's heatwave, which weather forecasters have dubbed Charon, after the ferryman who delivered souls into the underworld in Greek mythology.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2023

Italian meteorologists have dubbed the next phase of the European heatwave "Charon" - a reference to the ferryman of the souls of the dead in Greek mythology.

From Reuters ● Jul. 14, 2023

Directly after her marriage, when Hercules was taking her home, they had reached a river where the Centaur Nessus acted as ferryman, carrying travelers over the water.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Our narrator, Proctor Bennett, is one of the highly respected ferrymen who lead expiring Prosperans to the dock and launch them over to Nursery Isle for a refresh.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2023

Roberto Spada, 75, whose father was one of those ferrymen, said he helped navigate the ferry as a 12-year-old and was interested in helping out the town by doing it again as a volunteer.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2023

One B-52 pilot was inflating his life raft twelve miles downstream from Hanoi in an attempt to escape, when he was surrounded by ferrymen.

From Time Magazine Archive

As one of the River Sava's largest ports, it was a fief of ferrymen who plied their craft from the south bank to Hapsburg-ruled Slavonia on the other side.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many travellers, when seeing both ferrymen together, took them for brothers.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse