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In Hesiod's Theogony, Hypnos is one of the offspring of Nyx (Νύξ, ' Night '), the goddess of Night, without a father. [11] In genealogies from works by Roman authors, he is the son of Erebus (Darkness) and Nox (Night, the Roman name for Nyx). [12] In the Iliad, Nyx is a dreadful and powerful goddess, and even Zeus fears to enter her realm. [13]
In the Iliad, occasional syntactic inconsistency may be an oral tradition effect—for example, Aphrodite is "laughter-loving" despite being painfully wounded by Diomedes (Book V, 375); and the divine representations may mix Mycenaean and Greek Dark Age (c. 1150–800 BC) mythologies, parallelling the hereditary basileis nobles (lower social ...
In the Iliad, Pasithea is one of the younger Charites/Graces. In book 14, Hera approaches Hypnos, the god of sleep, for help in temporarily removing Zeus from the action of the Trojan War. In exchange for his aid, Hera swears an oath on the Styx, promising Pasithea in marriage to Hypnos, who, it is stated, had always loved her. [12]
Homer, in the Iliad (c. 8th century BC), relates a story in which Nyx saves Hypnos from the anger of Zeus. [32] When Hera comes to Hypnos and attempts to persuade him into lulling Zeus to sleep, [ 33 ] he refuses, reminding her of the last time she asked the same favour of him, when it had allowed her to persecute Heracles without her husband's ...
Hermes, messenger of the gods, leads Priam into Achilles' camp in book 24. Iris, messenger of Zeus and Hera. Poseidon, god of the sea and earthquake, brother of Zeus. Curses Odysseus. Scamander, river god who fought on the side of the Trojans during the Trojan War; Thetis, a sea nymph or goddess. Mother of Achilles, wife of Peleus.
Bessarion collected over a thousand books in the fifteenth century, including the only complete text of Athenaios' Deipnosophistai; the autograph of Planudes' Greek Anthology; and Venetus A. In 1468, Bessarion donated his library to the Republic of Venice, and the library was increased by further acquisitions from Bessarion until his death in ...
In the Iliad, as part of her plan to seduce Zeus to distract him from the Trojan War, she offers to arrange Hypnos's marriage to Pasithea, who is referred to as one of the younger Charites. [26] One of the Charites had a role as the wife of the smith god Hephaestus. Hesiod names the wife of Hephaestus as Aglaea. [3]
Map of Homeric Greece. In the debate since antiquity over the Catalogue of Ships, the core questions have concerned the extent of historical credibility of the account, whether it was composed by Homer himself, to what extent it reflects a pre-Homeric document or memorized tradition, surviving perhaps in part from Mycenaean times, or whether it is a result of post-Homeric development. [2]