Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (10)

• The Keres: Death-Spirits of Night (Hesiod and Homer)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / battlefield death · Hesiodic catalogue + Homeric battlefield Keres
• Hypnos and Thanatos: Sleep and Death, Children of Night
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / Sleep and Death · Hesiodic genealogy (+ Homeric twin imagery)
• Momus: Blame, Child of Night (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified blame · Hesiodic — Momos among Nyx’s children
• Nemesis: Daughter of Night (Hesiodic Birth)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / divine retribution · Hesiodic — Nemesis as Night’s daughter (genealogy only)
• Oizys: Distress, Child of Night (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified distress · Hesiodic — Oizys (Distress/Woe) among Nyx’s children
• Apate: Deceit, Child of Night (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified deceit · Hesiodic — Apate (Deceit) among Nyx’s children
• Philotes: Affection, Child of Night (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified affection · Hesiodic — Philotes (Affection / sexual love) among Nyx’s children
• Moros: Doom, Child of Night (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified doom · Hesiodic — Moros (Doom) among Nyx’s first-born
• The Oneiroi: Dreams, Children of Night (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / Dreams · Hesiodic — the tribe of Dreams (Oneiroi) born of Nyx
• Eris: Discord, Child of Night (Hesiodic Birth)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / Strife · Hesiodic — Eris (Strife) as Night’s daughter (genealogy only)

Characters in shared stories

• Aphrodite
• Artemis
• Children of Eris
• Dreams
• Eris
• Eris’s Algea
• Geras
• Hypnos
• Ker
• Moirae
• Momos
• Moros
• Mortals
• Nemesis
• Nyx
• Oizys
• Pallas
• Peleus and Thetis
• Philotes
• Thanatos