Minthe was a naiad nymph of the Cocytus, the river of lamentation in the underworld. As a chthonic naiad, she embodied and guarded the dark waters of Hades' realm.
The five rivers of the Greek underworld — Styx, Acheron, Lethe, Phlegethon, and Cocytus — flow through Hades's realm, each embodying a different aspect of death: hatred, woe, forgetfulness, fire, and lamentation.
Cocytus is a tributary of the Acheron in the Underworld's geography. Both rivers carry the sorrows of the dead through Hades's dark realm.
Cocytus, the river of wailing, flows through the depths near Tartarus in Virgil's geography of the Underworld, its lamenting waters marking the boundary of the abyss where the condemned are held.
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