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.

* Erebus is the name given to the fictional world in the Civilization IV mod: Fall from Heaven

When Hercules ventured into the underworld, he encountered Janet's spirit in Erebus, the place in between life and death where those who feel they still have business in the mortal world linger and gamble for their resurrection.

It is currently one of the most active volcanoes in the world, along with Kīlauea in the Hawaiian Islands ( Pacific Ocean ), Stromboli, Etna ( Italy ) and Mount Erebus in Antarctica.

It is little known even in the mountaineering world compared to the far more famous Mount Erebus, the second highest Antarctic volcano which is located near the U. S. and New Zealand bases on Ross Island.

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.

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.

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

During the Dark Reign storyline, Banshee is among the dead people seen in Erebus gambling for his resurrection when Hercules travels to the Underworld.

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

Located on Ross Island near Mount Erebus in New Zealand's Ross Dependency territorial claim, it was set up as support to field research and the centre for research into earth sciences, but now conducts research in many fields.

This degree qualified him for employment in the Naval Medical Service: he joined renowned polar explorer Captain James Clark Ross's Antarctic expedition to the South Magnetic Pole after receiving a commission as Assistant-Surgeon on HMS Erebus.

* 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

Mount Yaanek, with its " sulphurous currents " in the " ultimate climes of the pole ", has been associated with Mount Erebus, a volcano in Antarctica first sighted in 1841, although Yaanek's location is specified as being in " the realms of the boreal pole ", indicating an Arctic location rather than an Antarctic one for the fictional counterpart.

The British Council advised its staff to evacuate, and on 18 April Manning and Reggie left Piraeus for Egypt on the Erebus, the last civilian ship to leave Greece.

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

It was established that either the flight crew was unaware of, or ignored, the approved route's minimum safe altitude ( MSA ) of 16, 000 ft for the approach to Mount Erebus, and 6, 000 ft in the sector south of Mount Erebus ( and then only when the cloud base was at 7, 000 ft or better ).

In a litany, she is thanked for raising Pound up ( m ' elevasti, a reference to Dante's praise of his beloved Beatrice in the Paradiso ) out of hell ( Erebus ).

They relate Narfi to Erebus, which would make nipt Nera, used in " Helgakviða Hundingsbana I " for a Norn who comes in the night, an appelation derived from the Parcae, who were Erebus ' daughters.

During Hercules's journey to the underworld in the Dark Reign storyline, the Ancient One was seen in Erebus gambling for his resurrection.

During Hercules ' journey to the underworld, Namorita was seen in Erebus gambling for her resurrection.

For example, the Parícutin volcano erupted continuously between 1943-1952, Mount Erebus, Antarctica has produced Strombolian eruptions for at least many decades, and Stromboli itself has been producing Strombolian eruptions for several thousand years.

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

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

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

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.

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.

* March 9 – A team from Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition becomes the first to reach the crater of Mount Erebus in Antarctica.

* May 19 – HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men, comprising Sir John Franklin's expedition to find the Northwest Passage, sail from Greenhithe on the Thames.

An anorthoclase crystal from Mount Erebus, Antarctica

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

* " Erebus " is a track from Australian metal band, The Amenta's first studio album, Occasus ( 2004 ).

* Erebus is the name of the artist behind the musical project Spleen from Serbia.

* Koen " Trystys " Verstralen (* 1985 ), Musician, ex live guitarist of symphonic black metal band Carach Angren and ex singer of thrash metal formation Anxiety, currently playing bass in death metal band Erebus, hailing from Kampen

Dante was designed to acquire gas samples from the magma lake inside the inner crater of Mount Erebus in order to understand the chemistry better through the use of the on-board gas chromatograph as well as measuring the temperature inside the volcano and the radioactivity of the materials present in such volcanoes.

Researchers spent more than three months during the 2007-08 field season installing an array of seismometers around Mount Erebus to listen to waves of energy generated by small, controlled blasts from explosives they buried along its flanks and perimeter.

During the Antarctic summer, snow melt on the flanks of Mount Erebus continually brings debris from the crash to the surface of the snow ; it is plainly visible from the air.

Image: MountErebusNASA. jpg | Satellite picture of Mount Erebus showing glow from its persistent lava lake

* A picture from space of the lava lake at the summit of Mount Erebus

* A panoramic view from the summit of Mount Erebus

* 28 November 1979-Air New Zealand Flight 901, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-operated sightseeing flight from Auckland to Antarctica and return via Christchurch, crashed into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 on board.

Rhomb porphyry lavas are known only from three rift areas: The East African Rift ( including Mount Kilimanjaro ), Mount Erebus near the Ross Sea in Antarctica, and the Oslo graben in Norway.

Hooker's son Joseph Dalton Hooker was one of the first plant explorers to use the new Wardian cases, when he shipped live plants back to England from New Zealand in 1841, during the pioneering voyage of HMS Erebus that circumnavigated Antarctica.

Separating the peninsula from nearby islands is the Antarctic Sound, Erebus and Terror Gulf, George VI Sound, Gerlache Strait and the Lemaire Channel.

The attack began on September 13, as the British fleet of some nineteen ships began pounding the fort with Congreve rockets ( from rocket vessel HMS Erebus ) and mortar shells ( from bomb vessels Terror, Volcano, Meteor, Devastation, and Aetna ).