12/5/2023 0 Comments Erebus greek god statue"And Nyx (Night) bare hateful Moros (Doom) and black Ker (Violent Death) and Thanatos (Death), and she bare Hypnos (Sleep) and the tribe of Oneiroi (Dreams). Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) : Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.ĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES PARENTAGE OF THE ONEIROI 640), called him Icelus, but men called him Phobetor. I′CELUS, the son of Somnus, and brother of Morpheus, was believed to shape the dreams which came to man, whence he derived his name. Euripides called them sons of Gaea, and conceived them as genii with black wings. Morpheus, Icelus or Phobetor, and Phantasus. 633), who calls them children of Sleep, mentions tree of them by name, viz. 212) calls dreams the children for the children of Night, and Ovid ( Met. 12 ), and the deceitful dreams come through an ivory gate, while the true these ones issue from a gate made of horn. According to Homer Dreams dwell on the dark shores of the western Oceanus ( Od. ONEIROS (Oneiros), a personification of dream, and in the plural of dreams. MORPHEUS, IKELOS-PHOBETOR, PHANTASOS (Ovid Metamorphoses 11.592) HYPNOS (Ovid Metamorphoses 11.592) NAMES EREBOS & NYX (Hyginus Preface, Cicero De Natura Deorum 3.17) NYX (no father) (Hesiod Theogony 212 Sappho Frag 63, Statius Thebaid 10.112) The term for nightmare was melas oneiros (black dream).Īccording to some the leader of the Oneiroi was Morpheus, a god who appeared in the dreams of kings in the guise of a man bearing messages from the gods. The first of these, made of horn, was the source of the prophetic god-sent dreams, while the other, constructed of ivory, was the source of dreams which were false and without meaning. The Oneiroi passed through one of two gates ( pylai). THE ONEIROI were the dark-winged spirits ( daimones) of dreams which emerged each night like a flock of bats from their cavernous home in Erebos-the land of eternal darkness beyond the rising sun.
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