![]() ![]() In art, Thanatos was depicted as a young man carrying a butterfly, wreath or inversed torch in his hands. Thanatos might be poetically called the brother of Sleep and the son of Night. (The one exception is "loving Affection" who is placed between Deception and Old Age.) Night’s offspring are described as "horrible, painful, cruel, brooding, mocking and malignant." (Theogony, 212). Night, the destructive, brought forth a horde of villainous immortals. He became rather overshadowed by Hades the lord of death. He was a creature of bone-chilling darkness. In Greek mythology, Thanatos (θάνατος, "death") was the personification of death (Roman equivalent: Mors). 515 BC Archaic red-figure, Metropolitan Museum of Art Signed by Euxitheos, as potter Signed by Euphronios, as painter, Greek, Attic ( Etruscan Sculpture ) Hesiod TheogonyĮuphronios Krater, Hermes ( Psychopompos) in the Middle with the twin brothers Thanatos and Hypnos (Death and Sleep) moving Sarpedon, the son of Zeus to Hades the world of the dead. And the former of them roams peacefully over the earth and the sea's broad back and is kindly to men but the other has a heart of iron, and his spirit within him is pitiless as bronze: whomsoever of men he has once seized he holds fast: and he is hateful even to the deathless gods. The glowing Sun never looks upon them with his beams, neither as he goes up into heaven, nor as he comes down from heaven. And there the children of dark Night have their dwellings, Sleep and Death, awful gods. ![]()
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