·Direct
Sleep is met by Juno at Lemnos.
See evidence text
“till she reached Lemnos, the city of noble Thoas. There she met Sleep”
Deity · Individual
Sleep
Published entity metadata
Read-only identity and editorial metadata.
- Canonical name
- Sleep
- Disambiguator
- None
- Kind
- Deity
- Scope
- Individual
- Editorial note
- Personified Sleep; the text gives him dominion over mortals and immortals and has him speak of lulling other gods.
Aliases
1
you who lord it alike over mortals and immortals
Descriptive reference · Reported
Location presence
Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.
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Location presence
Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.
Lemnos1 observation
Ida1 observation
·Direct
Sleep is one of the two who reach many-fountained Ida.
See evidence text
“the two enshrouded themselves in a thick mist and sped lightly forward, leaving Lemnos and Imbrus behind them. Presently they reached many-fountained Ida”
Lectum1 observation
·Direct
Sleep is one of the two who reach Lectum and leave the sea there.
See evidence text
“the two enshrouded themselves in a thick mist and sped lightly forward, leaving Lemnos and Imbrus behind them. Presently they reached many-fountained Ida, mother of wild beasts, and Lectum where they left the sea to go on by land”
Claims
7
·Direct
Sleep is Juno’s encountered agent and is addressed as lord alike over mortals and immortals.
See evidence text
“There she met Sleep, own brother to Death, and caught him by the hand, saying, ‘Sleep, you who lord it alike over mortals and immortals”
·Direct
Sleep recalls laying Jove to rest for Juno, fleeing the awakened god, and gaining Night’s protection; he refuses to repeat the danger.
See evidence text
“At your bidding I suffused my sweet self over the mind of aegis-bearing Jove, and laid him to rest; meanwhile you hatched a plot against Hercules, and set the blasts of the angry winds beating upon the sea, till you took him to the goodly city of Cos, away from all his friends. Jove was furious when he awoke, and began hurling the gods about all over the house; he was looking more particularly for myself, and would have flung me down through space into the sea where I should never have been heard of any more, had not Night who cows both men and gods protected me. I fled to her and Jove left off looking for me in spite of his being so angry, for he did not dare do anything to displease Night. And now you are again asking me to do something on which I cannot venture.”
·Direct
Sleep is pleased and demands a cosmic oath before Juno gives him Pasithea, whom he has always wanted to marry.
See evidence text
“Sleep was pleased when he heard this, and answered, ‘Then swear it to me by the dread waters of the river Styx; lay one hand on the bounteous earth, and the other on the sheen of the sea, so that all the gods who dwell down below with Saturn may be our witnesses, and see that you really do give me one of the youngest of the Graces—Pasithea, whom I have always wanted to marry.”
·Disguised
Sleep hides on Ida’s tallest pine in the semblance of the sweet-singing mountain bird called Chalcis by gods and Cymindis by men.
See evidence text
“Here Sleep halted, and ere Jove caught sight of him he climbed a lofty pine-tree—the tallest that reared its head towards heaven on all Ida. He hid himself behind the branches and sat there in the semblance of the sweet-singing bird that haunts the mountains and is called Chalcis by the gods, but men call it Cymindis.”
·Direct
Sleep leaves for the Achaean ships, tells Neptune that Jove is asleep, and claims to have sent Jove into sweet slumber while Juno beguiled him.
See evidence text
“Meanwhile Sleep made off to the ships of the Achaeans, to tell earth-encircling Neptune, lord of the earthquake. When he had found him he said, ‘Now, Neptune, you can help the Danaans with a will, and give them victory though it be only for a short time while Jove is still sleeping. I have sent him into a sweet slumber, and Juno has beguiled him into going to bed with her.”
·Hypothetical
Juno proposes that Sleep carry Sarpedon from the field to Lycia with Death 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
Sleep, a fleet messenger, carries Sarpedon with Death 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.
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Additional evidence
Evidence records not already represented by a claim.
·Direct
“There she met Sleep, own brother to Death”
·Reported
“I would lull any other of the gods to sleep without compunction”
·Disguised
“He hid himself behind the branches and sat there in the semblance of the sweet-singing bird that haunts the mountains and is called Chalcis by the gods, but men call it Cymindis.”
·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
“sleep, before whom all things bow”