Sleep

Role: personification · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 18

In Book 3, Chapter 18, Sleep is described as Death’s sibling: “People have reckoned them to be brothers according to Homer’s lines in the Iliad.” In Book 5, Chapter 18, Sleep and Death appear with Night as their nurse. By Book 9, Chapter 35, Sleep is described as the lover of Pasithea, one of the Graces.

Relationship record

Book 3 · Chapter 18

• siblings with Death “People have reckoned them to be brothers according to Homer’s lines in the Iliad.”

Book 5 · Chapter 18

• with Night (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 9 · Chapter 35

• courtship with Pasithea “And he says that Sleep was the lover of the Grace Pasithea.”

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