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| Nyx
Biographical Other names: Nox, Night Night personified, and its goddess, Homer calls Nyx the subduer of gods and humans, and says that even Zeus stood in awe of her. In the earliest creation stories, Night is among the very first beings to come into existence. In later poets, where she is mainly a personification of darkness, she is sometimes described as a winged goddess and sometimes as riding in a chariot, wrapped in a dark cloak and accompanied by the stars. Her home was in the darkness of Hades. A statue of Night by Rhoecus once stood at Ephesus. On the chest of Cypselus, she was shown carrying Sleep and Death in her arms as two young boys. Daughter of Chaos, or Eros, or Iao (also his wife), she had issue with Erebus, her brother (or son, according to other versions) or, according to other sources, without any partner. |
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