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Hypnos
| Hypnos | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Hypnos marble head (National Roman Museum, Rome) | |
| Abode | Underworld |
| Symbol | Poppy, River Lethe, Cottonwood |
| Genealogy | |
| Parents | Nyx alone[1] Nyx and Erebus[2] |
| Siblings | Thanatos (twin brother) |
| Consort | Pasithea |
| Equivalents | |
| Roman equivalent | Somnus |
In Greek mythology, Hypnos (/ˈhɪpnɒs/; Ancient Greek: Ὕπνος, 'sleep'),[3] also spelled Hypnus, is the personification of sleep; the Roman equivalent is known as Somnus. His name is the origin of the word hypnosis.[4] Pausanias wrote that Hypnos was the dearest friend of the Muses.[5]
- ^ Hesiod, Theogony 212
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae Theogony 1 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 95); Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.17.
- ^ ὕπνος. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project.
- ^ James H. Mantinband. Concise Dictionary of Greek Literature. New York: Philosophical Library, 1962.
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 202.31.3
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