Acheron Cocytus and Phlegethon both flowed. The Roman poet Virgil called it the principal river of Tartarus, from which the Styx and Cocytus both sprang. The newly dead would be ferried across the Acheron by Charon in order to enter the Underworld. The Suda describes the river as "a place of healing, not a place of punishment, cleansing and purging the sins of humans". According to later traditions, Acheron had been a son of Helios and either Gaia or Demeter, who had been turned into the Underworld river bearing his name after he refreshed the Titans with drink during their contest
Campe Campe In Greek mythology, Campe or Kampe ( "crooked"; confer καμπή "a twist, a bend") is the name of a fearsome chthonic drakaina (she-dragon). Called the "Nymph of Tartarus" (Ταρταρία νύμφη), Campe was given the task of guarding the Hekatonkheires and the Cyclopes in Tartarus, by Cronus, leader of the Titans. She was killed by the eldest gods led by Zeus when he freed the Cyclopes to help him in the battle with the Titans. Campe was a half-dragon with a beautiful woman's head and upper body and a scorpion-like tail. Nonnus ("Dionysiaca" 18.23–264) gives the most elaborated description of