Charon
Charon
!Attic [red-figure lekythos attributed to the Tymbos painter showing Charon welcoming a soul into his boat, c. 500–450 BC](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/AtticRedFigure%28WhiteGround%29LekythoswithCharon%2CattributedtotheTymbospainter%2Cca500-450BC%2CAshmoleanMuseum%2COxford%2CUK%2822681344331%29.jpg/250px-AtticRedFigure%28WhiteGround%29LekythoswithCharon%2CattributedtotheTymbospainter%2Cca500-450BC%2CAshmoleanMuseum%2COxford%2CUK%2822681344331%29.jpg)
Genealogy
!Charon and his boat on a funerary relief, ca 320s BC, [KAMA.](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/RelieffromthegraveenclosureofLysimachides.Ca.320B.C.jpg/330px-RelieffromthegraveenclosureofLysimachides.Ca.320B.C.jpg)
Genealogy
In Genealogia Deorum Gentilium, the Italian Renaissance writer Giovanni Boccaccio wrote that Charon, who he identified as the god of time, was a son of Erebus and Night. The idea appears to have originated from the similarity between the names "Charon" and "Chronos" (a connection already made by earlier writers such as Fulgentius), the fact that both are said to be very old, and that the god of old age is said to be the child of Erebus and Night according to Cicero's De natura deorum.
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