In Greek mythology, Thanatos (/ˈθænətɒs/; Ancient Greek: Θάνατος, pronounced in Ancient Greek: [tʰánatos] "Death", from θνῄσκω thnēskō "(I) die, am dying")...
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asked Thanatos to demonstrate how the chains worked. As Thanatos was granting him his wish, Sisyphus seized the opportunity and trapped Thanatos in the...
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consort Erebus ("The Darkness") is named as his father. His twin brother is Thanatos ("Death"). Both siblings live in the underworld (Hades). According to rumors...
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Greek underworld (section Thanatos)
(μελιτοῦττα) with the dead in order for the dead to give it to Cerberus. Thanatos is the personification of death. Specifically, he represented non-violent...
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982; W.H. Roscher, Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie (Leipzig: Teubner, 1890–94), vol. 2, pt. 2, p. 16. Morand, p. 127, citing...
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with his twin brother, Hypnos, the god of sleep, Thanatos generally represents a gentle death. Thanatos, led by Hermes psychopompos, takes the shade of...
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982; W.H. Roscher, Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie (Leipzig: Teubner, 1890–94), vol. 2, pt. 2, p. 16. Sarah Iles Johnston...
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Hyginus, Poetical Astronomy, ii.17, .132. Wilhelm Vollmer, Wörterbuch der Mythologie, 3rd ed. 1874 Odyssey iv.404 (Amphitrite), and Iliad, xx.207. E.g. Jules...
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Heinrich Roscher (ed.). Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie [Detailed dictionary of Greek and Roman mythology] (in German). Vol. III...
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noting: "For a full collection of evidence see O. Gruppe, Griechische Mythologie und Religionsgeschichte (Munich 1906), 1524 n. 2.". Ιωάννης, Σταματάκος...
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ISBN 2-13-041872-4. Lacassin, Francis (1991). "Frankenstein ou l'hygiène du macabre". Mythologie du fantastique : les rivages de la nuit (in French). Paris. pp. 29–51...
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epithet of Juno. Mors, personification of death and equivalent of the Greek Thanatos. Morta, minor goddess of death and one of the Parcae (Roman equivalent...
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ISBN 978-0-415-77523-6. Darthou, Sonia (2017). Lexique des Symboles de la Mythologie Grecque [Lexicon of Symbols from Greek Mythology]. Que sais-je (in French)...
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Studio Books, p. 27 Dumézil, Georges (1934), Ouranos-Vàruna: Ètude de mythologie compáree indo-européene, Paris: Maisonneuve[ISBN missing] Dunand, Françoise...
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armies. After his death, Eos, perhaps with the help of Hypnos (Sleep) and Thanatos (Death), transported Memnon's dead body back to Aethiopia; she also asked...
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(Μούθ). Muth was described by Philo of Byblos as the equivalent of both Thanatos (Death personified) and Pluto. The ancient Greeks did not regard Pluto...
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father's flock. 296 Phaëtusa Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie. Band 3,2, Leipzig 1909 v t e...
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Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library. Vollmer, Wilhelm. (1874). Wörterbuch der Mythologie. Stuttgart, p. 426. v t e...
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Entstehung des Griechischen Gotter glaubens :Nilsson p 444 J.Grimm ,"Deutsche Mythologie", S..105 f, III S 142f: Nilsson,"Geschicte", Vol I, p.450 Nilsson,"Geschicte"...
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ISBN 978-0-8018-5362-3 (Vol. 2). Grimal, Pierre (1996). Dictionnaire de la Mythologie Grecque Et Romaine. Wiley. p. 349. ISBN 978-0-631-20102-1. Hesiod, Theogony...
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Daniel Ogden, John Wiley & Sons, 2010, ISBN 9781444334173. Decharme, Paul, Mythologie de la Grèce antique, Garnier Frères, 1884. Google books (in French). Detienne...
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available from the same website. Bartelink, Dr. G.J.M. (1988). Prisma van de mythologie. Utrecht: Het Spectrum. Dionysus of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities....
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1927-41, books 10- end by Charles Duke Yonge (1812-1891). Decharme, Paul, Mythologie de la Grèce antique, Garnier Frères, 1884. Google books (in French). Dillon...
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of his death wish. The transgression has been placed under the sign of Thanatos: the monster is the negative double of his creator, his evil Doppelgänger...
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