Hypnos
Euphronios Krater, Hermes (Psychopompos) in the Middle with the twin brothers Thanatos and Hypnos (Death and Sleep) moving Sarpedon, the son of Zeus to Hades the world of the dead. Calyx-krater, ca. 515 BC; Archaic; red-figure, Metropolitan Museum of Art Signed by Euxitheos, as potter; Signed by Euphronios, as painter, Greek, Attic ( Etruscan Sculpture )
In Greek mythology, the personification of sleep (Roman equivalent Somnus). His twin was Thanatos ("death"); their mother was the goddess Nyx ("night").
His palace was a dark cave where the sun never shines. At the entrance were a number of poppies and other hypnogogic plants.
His offspring consisted of the things that occur in dreams, the Oneiroi. The four principal of these appear in the dreams of kings: Morpheus, Phobetor, Icelus and Phantasos. According to one story he lived in a cave underneath a Greek island; through this cave flowed Lethe, the river of forgetfulness.
Endymion received the power to sleep with his eyes open from Hypnos, in order to constantly watch his beloved Selene.
Sleep and hist half brother Death, Waterhouse
In art, Hypnos was portrayed as a naked youthful man, sometimes with a beard, and wings attached to his head. He is sometimes shown as a man asleep on a bed of feathers with black curtains about him. Morpheus is his chief minister and prevents noises from waking him. In Sparta, the image of Hypnos was always put near that of death.
Hypnos British Museum
San Ildefonso Group, Madrid (Maybe Hypnos and Thanatos, or Orestes and Pylades or the Dioscouri)
S. McNally, Ariadne and Others: Images of Sleep in Greek and Early Roman Art, ClAnt 4, 1985, 152 ff.
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