·Direct
Death is identified as Sleep’s own brother when Juno meets Sleep at Lemnos.
See evidence text
“Sleep, own brother to Death, and caught him by the hand”
Character · Individual
Death
Published entity metadata
Read-only identity and editorial metadata.
- Canonical name
- Death
- Disambiguator
- None
- Kind
- Character
- Scope
- Individual
- Editorial note
- Personified as Sleep’s own brother; Book 14 does not explicitly establish a divine kind.
Aliases
0
No aliases recorded.
Location presence
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0
Location presence
Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.
No presence observations in the processed scope.
Claims
3
·Hypothetical
Juno proposes that Death carry Sarpedon from the field to Lycia with Sleep after his death.
See evidence text
“send Death and sweet Sleep to bear him off the field and take him to the broad lands of Lycia, where his brothers and his kinsmen will bury him with mound and pillar, in due honour to the dead.’”
·Direct
Death, a fleet messenger, carries Sarpedon with Sleep and sets him down in Lycia.
See evidence text
“the two fleet messengers, Death, and Sleep, who presently set him down in the rich land of Lycia.”
Additional evidence
Evidence records not already represented by a claim.
4
Additional evidence
Evidence records not already represented by a claim.
·Direct
“Sleep, own brother to Death”
·Hypothetical
“send Death and sweet Sleep to bear him off the field”
·Direct
“Death, and Sleep, who presently set him down in the rich land of Lycia”
·Direct
“death with the strong hand of fate are already close beside you”