ferryman
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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
Roy Truman, a descendant of Edward Smith, the captain of the Titanic, is head ferryman of the Butley Foot Ferry.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2024
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
European news outlets are referring to the latest heat wave in Southern Europe as “Caronte,” after the ferryman in Dante Alighieri’s poem “Inferno.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
The ferryman took him across on his bamboo raft.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
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
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
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
In order to understand the movements of the planets, Kepler thought about ferrymen trying to row across a fast-flowing river.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
