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 also mentioned in The House of Night to be the goddess Nyx's consort, the father of the love god Eros.

* 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.

* 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.

Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror ... 1839 – 1843 with issue of the final part of Flora Tasmaniae in London.

Mount Erebus ( 3, 795 m ), a stratovolcano on

The active volcano Mt Erebus at 12, 448 feet ( 3, 794 m ) dominates Ross Island.

I suppose the reason is a kind of wishful thinking: don't talk about the final stages of Reconstruction and they will take care of themselves.

The first thing to do is get her some money by a temporary but definite adjustment pending a final disposition of the case.

The final section of this pamphlet is of special interest in a consideration of Steele's relations with Swift.

This is the principal point made in this final section of Englishman No. 57, and it caps Steele's efforts in his other writing of these months to counteract the notion of the Tories as a `` Church Party '' supported by the body of the clergy.

As was said in Gonzales, `` it is the Appeal Board which renders the selective service determination considered ' final ' in the courts, not to be overturned unless there is no basis in fact.

It is but part of the whole process within the Department that goes into the making of the final recommendation to the appeal board.

The books and records with respect to each project shall be maintained for the duration of the project, or until the expiration of three years after final disbursement for the project has been made by the United States, whichever is later.

April 15 is usually the final date for filing income tax returns for most people because they use the calendar year ending on December 31.

Sometimes it is necessary to roughly calculate the square inch area of the opening but the calculation can usually be made with sufficient accuracy that it won't affect the final computation.

The total of these three volumes is the `` final combustion chamber volume ''.

The only way to determine the final combustion chamber volume when such pistons are used is by measuring it with liquid while the cylinder head is bolted to the cylinder block and the piston is in top dead center position.

When cut, the planking is clamped in place for a final and careful trimming.

The addition of endurance training later, when the body is mature enough to benefit from it without danger of injury, provides that final quality that makes the top athlete, soldier or citizen.

Ordinary politeness may have militated against this opinion being stated so badly but anyone with a wide acquaintance in both groups and who has sat through the many round tables, workshops or panel discussions -- whatever they are called -- on this subject will recognize that the final, boiled down crux of the matter is education.

A final class of exceptional lines is identifiable from the following considerations: Since no two generators of Af can intersect, it follows that their image curves can have no free intersections.

In I wanted to tell him, but I was afraid to the final to is lightly stressed because it represents to tell him.

We have a brief glimpse of the Tsar's public personality, the `` official Boris '', but our real focus is on the excitement of the crowd -- a significant contrast with its halfhearted acclamation in the opening scene, its bitter resentment and fury in the final act.

this final reminder of his guilt is the fatal one.

To the extent that a tale is twice told, its final author must be suspect, although plagiarism in an oral tradition is less a misdemeanor than the standard modus dicendi.

It is obvious that such an influence can only be expected in the final stage of an image intensifier at rather high output levels.

If, however, we are seeking the optimal R-stage policy for a given feed state, only one search for a maximum is required at the final step.