Erebos
Erebos ( Greek Ἔρεβος Érebos ) is the god and personification of darkness in Greek mythology . Like Tartaros , it was considered part of the underworld .
myth
In Hesiod's theogony as well as later in Hyginus , Erebos emerges as one of the first gods out of chaos . His siblings are Gaia , Tartaros , Eros and Nyx . In the cosmogony of the Orphics , Erebos is the descendant of Chronos and Ananke .
According to the theogony , the connection between Erebos and Nyx resulted in the personified Luft Aither , the personified day Hemera and the ferryman Charon . Aristophanes only mentions Aither.
Cicero and Hyginus name both gods and a number of personified evils and human states of mind as descendants of Erebos and the Nyx, some of which in older traditions arose from the Nyx without a father. Cicero names Amor , Aither and Hemera as well as Dolus , Metus , Labor , Invidentia (envy), Fatum ( calamity ), Senectus , Mors , the Tenebrae , Miseria , Querella , Gratia , Fraus , Obstinacia , the Parzen , the Hesperides and the Somnia
Hyginus calls as descendants of the Erebus and Nyx fate , senectus , Mors , Letum , continentia , Somnus , Somnia , Amor , Epiphron , Porphyrion , Epaphos , Discordia , Miseria, Petulantia , Nemesis , Euphrosyne , Amicitia , Misericordia , Styx , the Fates and the hesperides .
literature
- Ludwig von Sybel : Erebos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 1296 ( digitized version ).
- Otto Waser : Erebos. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, Col. 403 f. ( Digitized version ).
