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Hypnos

For other uses, see Hypnos (disambiguation).
Hypnos (left) and Thanatos (right) carry the body of Sarpedon while Hermes watches, Euphronios Krater, an Attic red-figure calyx-krater, c. 515–510 BC[1]

In Greek mythology, Hypnos (/ˈhɪpnɒs/; Ancient Greek: Ὕπνος, 'sleep'),[2] also spelled Hypnus, is the personification of sleep. The Roman equivalent is Somnus.[3] His name is the origin of the word hypnosis.[4] Pausanias wrote that Hypnos was the dearest friend of the Muses.[5]

  1. ^ LIMC, p. 697; Digital LIMC 9752 (Sarpedon 4).
  2. ^ ὕπνος. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project.
  3. ^ Tripp, s.vv. Hypnos, Somnus.
  4. ^ James H. Mantinband. Concise Dictionary of Greek Literature. New York: Philosophical Library, 1962.
  5. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 202.31.3
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