. . But why should you not tell of another kind of gods, such as sun, moon, stars, earth, ether, air, fire, water, the seasons, and the year? . . . Hermogenes : And what of the moon, Selene (the Moon)? Sokrates : That name appears to put Anaxagoras in an uncomfortable ...
Nyx, inGreek mythology, female personification of night but also a great cosmogonical figure, feared even byZeus, the king of the gods, as related in Homer’sIliad, Book XIV. According toHesiod’sTheogony, she was the daughter ofChaosand the mother of numerousprimordialpowers, including Sleep...