Phantasos
deity intermediate Roman single tradition · 1
Phantasos is one of the thousand sons of Somnus, the Roman god of Sleep. He appears in dreams as an apparition that takes the deceptive shapes of inanimate objects such as earth, rocks, water, and trees. In this role he embodies the illusionary aspect of sleep, presenting lifeless things as if they were animate.
When
- First attested
- 100 CE
- Attested period
- 100 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Ovid’s Metamorphoses was composed in the 1st century CE.
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Sources
wikipedia (1)
Source passages
“In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Phantasos (Ancient Greek: Φάντασος, 'apparition' 'fantasy' from Ancient Greek: φαντασία, phantasíā, 'appearance' 'imagination') is one of the thousand sons of Somnus (Sleep, the Roman counterpart of Hypnos). He appeared in dreams in the form of inanimate objects, putting on "deceptive shapes of earth, rocks, water, trees, all lifeless things".”
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