Night

Role: goddess · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 18

In Book 5, Chapter 18, Night is described as the nurse of Death and Sleep. By Book 7, Chapter 5, she is named as the mother of Nemesis by those who worship two Nemeses; the Athenians who worship Nemesis at Rhamnus instead say that Nemesis was the daughter of Oceanus.

Relationship record

Book 5 · Chapter 18

• with Death (Night is described as their nurse.) “The inscriptions shew, what one would have inferred without any inscriptions, that they are Death and Sleep with their nurse Night.”
• with Sleep (Night is described as their nurse.) “The inscriptions shew, what one would have inferred without any inscriptions, that they are Death and Sleep with their nurse Night.”

Book 7 · Chapter 5

• child: Nemesis “So they willingly removed, and they worship two Nemeses instead of one, and they say their mother was Night, but the Athenians who worship Nemesis at Rhamnus say that she was the daughter of Oceanus.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.