Styx’s Lost Children

Before children sang “cross my heart and hope to die”, the Greeks were swearing their oaths on the goddess and river Styx. Styx, meaning “shuddering”, and expressing a loathing of death reminds us of our delightfully melancholic sing song oath we so voluntarily gave as kids. I wonder what “shuddering oaths” the children of old swore to each other as they played under the Olympians watchful eyes.