Homer is somewhat vague about the precise manner of Ajax's death but does ascribe it to his loss in the dispute over Achilles's shield: when Odysseus visits Hades, he begs the soul of Ajax to speak to him, but Ajax, still resentful over the old quarrel, refuses and descends silently back into Erebus.

Then came Gaia ( Earth ), Tartarus ( the cave-like space under the earth ; the later-born Erebus is the darkness in this space ), and Eros ( Sexual Desire-the urge to reproduce, not the emotion of love as is the common misconception ).

* January 27 – The active volcano Mount Erebus in Antarctica is discovered and named by James Clark Ross.

Erebus features little in Greek mythological tradition and literature, but is said to have fathered several other deities by Nyx ; depending on the source of the mythology, this union includes Aether, Hemera, the Hesperides, Hypnos, the Moirai, Geras, Styx, and Thanatos.

In Greek literature the name Erebus is also used to refer to a region of the Underworld where the dead had to pass immediately after dying, and is sometimes used interchangeably with Tartarus.

The perceived meaning of Erebus is " darkness "; the first recorded instance of it was " place of darkness between earth and Hades ".

According to the Greek oral poet Hesiod's Theogony, Erebus is the offspring of Chaos, and brother to Nyx.

* Mount Erebus is the second highest volcano in Antarctica, located on Ross Island.

* Erebus is the name of the world's largest walk-through haunted attraction, located in Pontiac, Michigan.

* Erebus is mentioned in The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe.

* Erebus is the name of a planet in the Stargate universe.

* Erebus is the name of the Patrol Boat in Apocalypse Now.

* Erebus is the highest form of armor for the Heretic class in the MMORPG Battle of the Immortals.

* In the Warhammer 40, 000 Horus Heresy Novel Series, Erebus is the name of the first Chaplain of the Word Bearers legion.

* In the MMORPG EVE Online, the Erebus is the name of the Gallente race's Titan-class capital ship, one of the four largest vessels in the game.

* Erebus is the final boss of " The Answer " in Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES

* In The Lightning Thief, Erebus is mentioned on the Underworld entrance, an entrance which, as Percy Jackson describes it, is a cross between airport security and the New Jersey Turnpike.

* In The House Of Night series Erebus is named as Nyx's consort.

Later in the series the school is tricked into believing Kalona is Erebus reborn from earth.

* Erebus is used as a name given by the Player Character of AdventureQuest to a major villain who had yet to be named.

There are also sight-seeing overflights from Australia which fly nonstop over Antarctica and return, although overflights from New Zealand stopped after the fatal crash of Air New Zealand Flight 901 on Mount Erebus in late 1979.

In Greek mythology, Erebus (), also Erebos (, " deep darkness, shadow "), was often conceived as a primordial deity, representing the personification of darkness ; for instance, Hesiod's Theogony places him as one of the first five beings to come into existence from Chaos.

* Phobetor ( or according to Cicero, by Erebus ; also known as Ikelos )

The city is also host to two of the nation's renowned haunted houses: The Realm of Darkness and Erebus.

Mount Erebus was discovered on January 27, 1841 ( and observed to be in eruption ) by polar explorer Sir James Clark Ross who named it Mount Erebus after his ships, Erebus and Terror ( which were also used by Sir John Franklin on his disastrous Arctic expedition ).

She also wrote numerous radio docudramas for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC ), including a " much-admired radio drama ", Terror and Erebus, in 1965.

The word ( aithēr ) in Homeric Greek means " pure, fresh air " or " clear sky ", imagined in Greek mythology to be the pure essence where the gods lived and which they breathed, analogous to the air breathed by mortals ( also personified as a deity, Aether, the son of Erebus and Nyx ).

Erebus ( lines 691, 1194 ) isn't mentioned in other plays.

* Mount Terror and Mount Erebus are mentioned in the 1936 novella " At the Mountains of Madness " by H. P. Lovecraft.

* A secret society of vampires called The House of Erebus was depicted in the film Blade

Erebus held the world record for " Largest Haunted House " from 2005-2009, at 4 stories high.

* Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Crash on Mount Erebus, Antarctica of a DC10 Aircraft operated by Air New Zealand Limited (" The Mahon Inquiry ") ( 1980 – 1981 ) — this commission was appealed to the House of Lords and set new legal standards for the conduct of commissions

After killing the House of Erebus leaders as part of the ritual, Blade and Karen Jenson ( played by N ' Bushe Wright ) spoiled Frost's plans.

From Chaos came Erebus ( place of darkness between the earth and the underworld ) and Nyx ( Night ).

The ancient Greek poet Hesiod has in his account of the birth of the gods and creation of the world ( i. e., in his Theogony ) that Chaos begot the primordial deities: Eros, Gaia ( Earth ) and Tartarus, who begot Erebus ( Darkness ) and Nyx ( Night ), and Plato echoes this genealogy in the Timaeus 40e, 41e where the familiar Titan and Olympian gods are sired by Heaven and Earth.

According to Hesiod, Phobetor is the son of Nyx, the primordial goddess of the Night, produced parthenogenetically, or as Cicero claims, with Erebus, the embodiment of Darkness.

The Chorus delivers a brief account of the genealogy of the gods, claiming that the birds are children of Eros and grandchildren of Night and Erebus, thus establishing their claim to divinity ahead of the Olympians.

According to Hesiod, Nyx, the primordial goddess of the Night, produced the " tribe of Dreams " () parthenogenetically, though Cicero says that Dreams were the children of Night and Erebus, the embodiment of Darkness.

According to Hesiod's Theogony, she and her sisters ( Atropos and Clotho ) are the daughters of Nyx ( Night ) and Erebus.

Stone Brothers Racing, in conjunction with Australian GT Championship team Erebus Racing later confirmed they would be adapating Mercedes-AMG cars to the new regulations.

* Erebus Armor could be won in Lemuria in Golden Sun: The Lost Age

The volcano has been observed to be continuously active since 1972 and is the site of the Mount Erebus Volcano Observatory run by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.

Mount Erebus can be seen in the background. The supply ship MV American Tern ( T-AK-4729 ) | M / V American Tern during cargo operations at McMurdo Station during Operation Deep Freeze 2007.

* Erebus, Tartarus, Eros: Foundational material for genealogies such as Hesiod's Theogony, they are here revealed to be close relatives of the birds.

When Hercules ventures into the underworld, Foster can be seen in Erebus: the place in between life and death where those who feel they still have business in the mortal world ( ranging from Ancient One, Banshee, Baron Heinrich Zemo, Blink, Cobalt Man, Commander Kraken, Cypher, Darkstar, Elvis Presley, Hippolyta, Jackal, Jack of Hearts, Jack O ' Lantern, Namorita, Orka, Puck, Scourge of the Underworld, U-Go Girl, Veranke, and Wasp ) linger and gamble for their resurrection.