Also deadly Nyx bare Nemesis (Envy) to afflict mortal men, and after her, Apate (Deceit) and Philotes (Friendship) and hateful Geras (Old Age) and hard-hearted Eris (Strife).' Also she bare the Moirai (Moirae, Fates) and the ruthless avenging Keres (Death-Fates). And again the goddess murky Nyx, though she lay with none, bare Momos (Blame) and painful Oizys (Misery), and the Hesperides. 'And Nyx (Night) bare hateful Moros (Doom) and black Ker (Violent Death) and Thanatos (Death), and she bare Hypnos (Sleep) and the tribe of Oneiroi (Dreams). Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) : Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.ĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES PARENTAGE OF HYPNOS In works of art Sleep and Death are represented alike as two youths sleeping or holding inverted torches in their hands. At Sicyon there was a statue of Sleep surnamed epidôtês, the giver (Paus. The personification and god of sleep, the Latin Somnus, is described by the ancients as a brother of Death ( thanatos), and as a son of Night (Hes. THE ONEIROI x 1000, MORPHEUS, IKELOS, PHANTASOS (Ovid Metamorphoses 11.630) EREBOS & NYX (Hyginus Preface, Cicero De Natura Deorum. NYX (no father) (Hesiod Theogony 212, Homer Iliad 14.250, Aeschylus Frag 250, Seneca Hercules Furens1068, Nonnus Dionysiaca 31.103) His Roman equivalent was Somnus or Sopor. His attributes included either a horn of sleep-inducing opium, a poppy-stem, a branch dripping water from the river Lethe (Forgetfulness), or an inverted torch. Hypnos was depicted as a young man with wings on his shoulders or brow. Hypnos was often paired with his twin brother Thanatos (Peaceful Death), and the Oneiroi (Dreams) were his brothers or sons. He dwelt in Erebos, the land of eternal darkness beyond the gates of the rising sun, and rose into the sky each night in the train of his mother Nyx (Night). HYPNOS was the god or personified spirit ( daimon) of sleep.

Sleep ( hypnos) Hypnos god of sleep, Apulian red-figure vase C4th B.C., The J.

Hypnos painting