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Nyx

deity underworld Greek single tradition · 8

Nyx is the personification of the night in Greek mythology. She is mentioned as a possible parent of Eos in some accounts. She is also the mother of Hemera in the Theogony.

↻ synthesized from 8 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
Attested in Greek cosmogony.

Relationships

parent of
Erinyes, Eos, Aether, Apate, Dolus, Fraus, Hemera, Protogonos, Oneiroi, Ouranos
co occurs with
Aletheia, Zelos, Calliope, Clotho, Lachesis, Medea, Minthe, Ananke, Helios, Pallas, Selene, Theia, Eros, Aphrodite, Uranus, Gaia, Apollo, Hera, Athena, Persephone, Kronos, Titans, Zagreus, Semele, Hyperion, Hecate, Amphitrite, Atropos, Melinoe, Dionysus, Chronos
consort of
Erebus, Chronus, Phanes
allied with
Eos, Hypnos
enemy of
Zeus
child of
Chaos
syncretized with
Nox, Louhi

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Mentioned by

and 10 more

Sources

wikipedia (8)
  1. Eos
  2. List of Greek deities
  3. Apate
  4. Hemera
  5. Orphism
  6. Nyx
  7. The Goddess Girls
  8. Phanes

Source passages

“Some authors made her the child of Nyx, the personification of the night, who is the mother of Hemera in the Theogony.”

#18174 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“he continues his enumeration of her descendants, listing various dismal abstractions who descend from her daughter, Nyx...deities such as Nyx, Aether, and Eros feature in a number of other early cosmogonies.”

#26282 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Apate was the daughter of the primordial deities Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night).”

#27637 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Hemera left Tartarus just as Nyx (Night) entered it...deadly Night, shrouded in murky cloud”

#28439 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“In the Eudemian Theogony (5th century BC), the first being to exist is Night (Nyx)...In the Derveni Theogony, the Night lays the egg from which Protogonos arises”

#36709 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5