He has been called the 'Founder of the Dance Revolution.'

Who's music has been featured on more than 200 motion picture film soundtracks? Twice.ĭo say: 'Beware Greeks bearing bottles of Peloponnesian mineral water.'ĭon't say: 'OK, quote me the opening lines of the Theogony.Who's music has been featured at EVERY major sporting event in the world including the Super Bowl, World Series, Conference Championships, The NBA, Collegiate Bowl Games National Championship Games, the NASCAR racing Circuit and Championships, The World Cup, The Indianapolis 500, The Kentucky Derby, EVERY Holiday Parade include the famous Macys Thanksgiving Day parade, and the Tournament of Roses Parade, Political Party Conventions, Presidential Campaigns and nearly EVERY wedding, confirmation, and bar mitzvah in the world? You'll just have to take my word for it that I know who Hesiod is, and have read his Theogony. How do we know the Styx is derived from the Mavroneri? From the description in Hesiod's Theogony. How watertight is the theory? Decidedly leaky. Who's Pliny the Elder? The uncle of Pliny the Younger.

Alcohol poisoning is one theory, and there are plenty of others – septicemia, pancreatitis, malaria, typhoid, West Nile fever – but Mayor and Hayes prefer Pliny the Elder's hypothesis that Alexander was poisoned. Sounds like he had one vodka shot too many. Who's Alexander the Great? Jesus! Don't they teach anything in schools any more? He was the Macedonian king who conquered half the world before dying, aged just 32, a prolonged and agonising death after a night's binge drinking with his chums in downtown Babylon in 323BC. The Styx is based on a real stream and waterfall called the Mavroneri (AKA 'Black Water') in the Peloponnese, and two American researchers, historian Adrienne Mayor and toxicologist Antoinette Hayes, have just published an academic paper arguing that the Styx/Mavroneri contained a deadly bacterium and that water from it may have been used to poison Alexander the Great. If they lied, Zeus made them drink the poisonous waters, which instantly immobilised them.

Mythical isn't it? Something to do with the Greeks? The Styx is, indeed, part of Greek mythology: the river separating earth from the Underworld, across which Charon ferried the souls of the dead, and the place where the gods swore sacred oaths. What does that mean? Dark, gloomy, infernal, hellish, almost as murky as the Mersey basically.

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