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In Greek mythology, dreams were sometimes personified as Oneiros (Ancient Greek: Ὄνειρος, lit. 'dream') or Oneiroi (Ὄνειροι, 'dreams'). [1] In the Iliad of Homer, Zeus sends an Oneiros to appear to Agamemnon in a dream, while in Hesiod's Theogony, the Oneiroi are the sons of Nyx (Night), and brothers of Hypnos (Sleep).
Hypnos and Thanatos carrying the body of Sarpedon from the battlefield of Troy; detail from an Attic white-ground lekythos, ca. 440 BC. [15] Hypnos used his powers to trick Zeus. Hypnos was able to trick him and help the Danaans win the Trojan War. During the war, Hera loathed her brother and husband, Zeus, so she devised a plot to trick him.
This panel depicts the gods Hypnos, Hera, and Zeus on Mt. Ida. Hypnos is presenting Hera to Zeus, who sits seated on the right side of the painting. Zeus is holding Hera by the wrist, and Hera is looking at the viewer reluctantly with her veil removed. The three young figures at the bottom right of the painting are possibly dactyli. [1]
The following is a family tree of gods, goddesses, ... Hypnos Sleep: Eris Strife: Apate Deceit: Oizys Distress: the Erinyes: the Gigantes: the Meliae: Aphrodite [b ...
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 ...
In book 31, Nonnus reuses Homer's deception of Zeus episode in a different context. Hera commands Iris to take on the form of Nyx, the mother of Hypnos, and visit him to convince him to make Zeus fall asleep for a day so that Hera can help the opponents of Dionysus. As in Homer, the proffered reward for helping Hera is the hand of Pasithea ...
There were three separate traditions concerning the genealogy of Sarpedon the brother of Minos, and Sarpedon the Trojan War hero. In Homer's Iliad, Zeus had two sons by Europa, Minos and Rhadamanthus; [7] [8] Sarpedon, a Trojan ally from Lycia, was the son of Zeus and Laodamia, the daughter of Bellerophon and the Lycian princess Philonoe, with no apparent connection to Crete. [9]
On the lekythos Hypnos, the Greek personification of sleep, and Thanatos, the Greek god of death, are carrying Sarpedon who was Zeus' son. Sarpedon was one of Zeus' favorite sons and he entrusted Hynos and Thanatos to deliver Sarpedon's body to where he would be buried in Lycia. [6] Sleep is near Sarpedon's head and Death is near his feet.