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Nox

deity sky Roman single tradition · 3

The Roman personification of Night. According to Hyginus, Nox was the daughter of Caligo and Chaos.

↻ synthesized from 3 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 200
Historical notes
Attested in Hyginus's first-century BC Fabulae.

Relationships

sibling of
Erebus, Dies, Aether
parent of
Erinyes, Styx
co occurs with
Dies, Aether, Caelus, Nike, Zelus, Kratos, Perias, Achlys, Mercury, Mare, Terra, Chaos, Bia, Zeus, Echidna, Oceanus, Persephone, Pallas, Tethys
consort of
Erebus
syncretized with
Nyx
child of
Caligo, Chaos, Caligio

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Mentioned by

Sources

wikipedia (3)
  1. Achlys
  2. Hemera
  3. Styx

Source passages

“with Chaos, was the mother of Night (Nox), Day (Dies), Darkness (Erebus) and Ether (Aether)”

#15290 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“According to the Roman mythographer Hyginus, Chaos and Caligio (Mist) were the parents of Nox (Night), Dies, Erebus, and Aether.”

#28441 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“according to the Roman mythographer Hyginus, she was the daughter of Nox ("Night", the Roman equivalent of Nyx) and Erebus (Darkness).”

#37345 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5