From Chaos came forth Erebus and black Night; but of Night were born Aether (5) and Day, whom she conceived and bare from union in love with Erebus.
But Menoetius was outrageous, and far-seeing Zeus struck him with a lurid thunderbolt and sent him down to Erebus because of his mad presumption and exceeding pride.
And in that
Erebus of the skylight room, she slowly raised her heavy eyelids, and smiled.
We know that in those Antarctic countries, James Ross found two craters, the
Erebus and Terror, in full activity, on the 167th meridian, latitude 77@ 32'.
We were approaching another range of mountains at the time, and when we reached them, instead of winding across them through some high-flung pass we entered a mighty natural tunnel--a series of labyrinthine grottoes, dark as
Erebus.
Through narrow, stinking alleys, black as
Erebus, he groped, and then up a rickety stairway, at the end of which was a closed door and a tiny, unglazed window.
Such a hush had fallen on the ship that she might have been a bark of the dead floating in slowly under the very gate of
Erebus.
"'When you shall have thus besought the ghosts with your prayers, offer them a ram and a black ewe, bending their heads towards
Erebus; but yourself turn away from them as though you would make towards the river.
He would weep till his cry came up to heaven, and then Jove would send me down to help him; if I had had the sense to foresee all this, when Eurystheus sent him to the house of Hades, to fetch the hell-hound from
Erebus, he would never have come back alive out of the deep waters of the river Styx.
It had borne all the ships whose names are like jewels flashing in the night of time, from the Golden Hind returning with her round flanks full of treasure, to be visited by the Queen's Highness and thus pass out of the gigantic tale, to the
Erebus and Terror, bound on other conquests --and that never returned.
"He got up painfully, looked at the flames, at the sea sparkling round the ship, and black, black as ink farther away; he looked at the stars shining dim through a thin veil of smoke in a sky black, black as
Erebus.