Sleep
deity figure · 5 works · 5 mentions · 11 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Sleep the idea · Sleep the event
Hypnos · Divine Sleep · offspring of sable Night · the brother of Death
in the texts
Protrepticus
Personified Sleep, called a twin god with Death and refuted as a natural affection, not a deity.
So Sleep and Death, two twin gods, could no longer reasonably be reckoned by you, these being affections that befall living things naturally;
Cyclops
Personified divine Sleep, child of Night, invoked to overwhelm the Cyclops
Come, Sleep, as well, offspring of sable Night, come with all thy power on the monster god-detested;
Theogony
A god, child of Night and brother of Death, who moves peacefully among mortals.
and the one holds all-seeing light for them on earth, but the other holds in her arms Sleep the brother of Death, even evil Night, wrapped in a vaporous cloud.
And the former of them roams peacefully over the earth and the sea's broad back and is kindly to men;
Iliad
God of sleep, brother of Death, whom Hera persuades with the promise of marriage to Pasithea to lull Zeus.
Meanwhile Sleep made off to the ships of the Achaeans, to tell earth-encircling Poseidon, lord of the earthquake.
Sleep now departed and went his ways to and fro among humankind, leaving Poseidon more eager than ever to help the Danaans.
Here Sleep halted, and ere Zeus caught sight of him he climbed a lofty pine-tree - the tallest that reared its head towards heaven on all Ida.
Philoctetes
Personified divine sleep invoked to relieve Philoctetes' pain.
Divine Sleep, god who knows no pain, Sleep, stranger to anguish, come in favor to us, come happy, and giving happiness, great King!
Come, friends, let us leave him in quietness, so that he may fall asleep.
Sleep, I think, will take him before long.