That's how the myth has it that the Greeks won the war Zeus never realised that he had been tricked once again. He immediately went to Poseidon to inform him that he could now help the Greeks in the Trojan War. Zeus agreed, but he was so enchanted by her beauty that he took her in his embrace at that moment, Hypnos made Zeus fall asleep. Hera, dressed beautifully and having a charm that Aphrodite had given to her, went to Zeus, and lied to him, saying that her parents were quarreling, and that she wanted his approval to go and stop them. According to Virgil, Somnus was the brother of Death ( Mors ), 2 and according to Ovid, Somnus had a 'thousand' sons, 3 the Somnia ('dream shapes'), who appear in dreams 'mimicking many forms'. Hypnos: A Greek Mythology Romance (The Underworld Saga) Pohler, Eva on. After Hypnos made Hera swear an oath by the river Styx that she would fulfill her part of the bargain, he agreed to help her. In Roman mythology, Somnus ('sleep') is the personification of sleep. Hera, however, told him that she would give him Pasithea, one of the youngest Charites (Graces), for his wife. The second time, Hypnos was reluctant to trick Zeus again, afraid of his wrath. When Zeus awoke, he was infuriated and tried to find Hypnos, who managed to hide with his mother, Nyx. The first time, Hera devised a plan to avenge the ransacking of Troy by Heracles, Zeus' son so, Hypnos put Zeus to sleep and Hera unleashed angry winds on the oceans while Heracles was sailing home from Troy. Gentle Hypnos was typically described as handsome, youthful, and winged (his wings, at least in some accounts, were said to grow out of his temples). He was thus regarded as an extremely powerful deity. He was responsible for bringing sleep to all living things, both mortal and immortal. According to Greek myth, he was the son of Nyx (pronounced NIKS), the goddess of night, and his brother was. Hypnos was the god or daemon who personified sleep. Hypnos managed to put Zeus to sleep twice, when he was asked by Hera. Hypnos hid from the sunlight during the day. Hypnos and Pasithea had a number of sons called the Oneiroi (the dreams), who according to some sources were three in number Morpheus, Phobetor and Phantasos. He was the son of Nyx (night) and Erebus (darkness), while his wife, Pasithea, was one of the youngest of the Graces and was given to him by Hera. The river Lethe (the river of forgetfulness) flowed through the cave. He lived in a cave next to his twin brother, Thanatos, in the underworld, where no light was cast by the sun or the moon the earth in front of the cave was full of poppies and other sleep-inducing plants. Hypnos appears throughout Greek mythology, making people fall asleep at opportune times. Homer confirmed Hypnos and Thanatos as twin brothers in his epic poem, the Iliad, where they were charged by Zeus via Apollo with the swift delivery of the slain hero Sarpedon to his homeland of Lycia. Hypnos was a primordial deity in Greek mythology, the personification of sleep. The Greek poet Hesiod established in his Theogony that Thnatos has no father, but is the son of Nyx (Night) and brother of Hypnos (Sleep).
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