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In Greek mythology, Erebus (/ ˈ ɛr ə b ə s /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ἔρεβος, romanized: Érebos, lit. 'darkness, gloom'), [ 2 ] or Erebos , is the personification of darkness. In Hesiod 's Theogony , he is the offspring of Chaos , and the father of Aether and Hemera (Day) by Nyx (Night); in other Greek cosmogonies, he is the father of ...
Hesiod says Nyx and Erebus together had Aether and Hemera, but Nyx had the other children on her own. Cicero and Hyginus say Nyx had all her children with Erebus. In Virgil's Aeneid, Nox is said to be the mother of the Furies by Hades. [18] Some authors made Nyx the mother of Eos, the dawn goddess, who was often conflated with Nyx's daughter ...
Erebus Darkness: Nyx The Night: Moros Doom: the Oneiroi Dreams: Nemesis Retribution: Momus Blame: Philotes Affection: Geras Aging: Typhon: Uranus The Sky: the Ourea Mountains: Pontus The Sea: Aether Heaven: Hemera The Day: Thanatos Death: Hypnos Sleep: Eris Strife: Apate Deceit: Oizys Distress: the Erinyes: the Gigantes: the Meliae: Aphrodite ...
The earliest surviving representation of Nyx is an Attic lekythos (c. 500 BC), which shows her driving a two-horse chariot away from Helios, who is ascending into the sky in his quadriga at the start of the new day. [167] Most depictions of Nyx portray her as having wings, and in early representations she is usually shown riding in a chariot. [168]
However, other early sources give other genealogies. According to one, the union of Erebus and Nyx resulted in Aether, Eros, and Metis (rather than Aether and Hemera), while according to another, Aether and Nyx were the parents of Eros (in Hesiod, the fourth god to come into existence after Chaos, Gaia (Earth), and Tartarus). [6]
In Hesiod's Theogony, Hemera and her brother Aether were the offspring of Erebus and Nyx. [2] Bacchylides apparently had Hemera as the daughter of Chronus (Time) and Nyx. [3] In the lost epic poem the Titanomachy (late seventh century BC?), [4] Hemera was perhaps the mother, by Aether, of Uranus (Sky). [5]
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]
According to Hesiod's Theogony, Nemesis was one of the children of Nyx alone. [4] Nemesis has been described as the daughter of Oceanus, Erebus, or Zeus, [citation needed] but according to Hyginus she was a child of Erebus and Nyx. Some made her the daughter of Zeus by an unnamed mother. [5]