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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]
Relief from a carved funerary lekythos at Athens: Hermes as psychopomp conducts the deceased, Myrrhine, to Hades, ca 430-420 BCE (National Archaeological Museum of Athens). While Hermes did not primarily reside in the underworld and is not usually associated with the underworld, he was the one who led the souls of the dead to the underworld.
A lekythos (Ancient Greek: λήκυθος; pl.: lekythoi) is a type of ancient Greek vessel used for storing oil, especially olive oil. It has a narrow body and one handle attached to the neck of the vessel, and is thus a narrow type of jug , with no pouring lip; the oinochoe is more like a modern jug.
Hypnos and Thanatos carrying the body of Sarpedon from the battlefield of Troy; detail from an Attic white-ground lekythos, ca. 440 BC. 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.
The Gorgons Stheno and Euryale chasing Perseus; Attic black-figure lekythos, Cabinet des Medailles 277 (550–500 BC) [1] In Greek mythology, Stheno (/ ˈ s θ iː n oʊ, ˈ s θ ɛ n oʊ /; Ancient Greek: Σθενώ, romanized: Sthenṓ, lit. 'forceful') [2] and Euryale (/ j ʊəˈr aɪ ə l i / yuu-RY-ə-lee; Ancient Greek: Εὐρυάλη ...
A lekythos by the Reed Painter is one of only a few white-figure examples that depict a horseman at a tomb; unusually, the youth sits at the tomb with his horse rather than riding it. [3] He may be an ephebe in training for the cavalry, as he wears the black cloak ( chlamys ) that was characteristic attire for the Athenian ephebe at certain ...
We seem to be dealing with some dreadfully difficult Orphic stuff ; Nyx and the world-egg (or Nyx as the world-egg), from which Phanes (or Eros) emerges as first progenitor, and then comes a whole sheaf of cosmic destructions and recreations - the following is the simplest presentation I've come across; . (Nyx is mentioned only once - more ...
The Greek poet Hesiod established in his Theogony that Thánatos has no father, but is the son of Nyx (Night) and brother of Hypnos (Sleep). [6] Homer earlier described Hypnos and Thanatos as twin brothers in his epic poem, the Iliad, where they were charged by Zeus via Apollo with the swift delivery of the slain hero Sarpedon to his homeland ...