Hypnos

Hypnos

[Somnus.]

Hypnos

(Ὕπνος). The god of sleep.

Hypnos Sleep Hypnos, brother of Death

• Paus. 3.18.1
• nursed by Night: Paus. 5.18.1
• dear to the Muses: Paus. 2.31.3
• lover of Pasithea: Paus. 9.35.4
• surnamed Bountiful: Paus. 2.10.2
• images of: Paus. 2.10.2, Paus. 3.18.1
• represented lulling a lion: Paus. 2.10.2and sleeping in arms of Night: Paus. 5.18.1
• sacrifices offered to Sleep and Muses on same altar: Paus. 2.31.3
• eternal sleep, of Endymion: Apollod. 1.7.5