Morpheus’s Family Tree

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Family

• Hypnos(parent),Pasithea(parent),Phantasos(sibling),Phobetor(sibling)— Marriage

  Hera promised Hypnos the Grace Pasithea as his bride if he would put Zeus to sleep during the Trojan War. Their union produced the Oneiroi — Morpheus, who takes human form in dreams, Phobetor, who appears as beasts and serpents, and Phantasos, who fashions visions of earth, water, and stone.

  ⚠ Hesiod's Theogony 212 names the Oneiroi as children of Nyx alone; Ovid's Metamorphoses 11 attributes them to Somnus (Hypnos).

Serves

• Hypnos

  Hypnos commands the Oneiroi — Morpheus, Phobetor, and Phantasos — dispatching them through the gates of horn and ivory to deliver dreams to sleeping mortals and gods.

Member of

• Oneiroi

  The Oneiroi number a thousand, but three stand above the rest — Morpheus, who takes human form in dreams, Phobetor, who appears as beasts and serpents, and Phantasos, who fashions visions of earth, water, and stone.

Associated with

• Alcyone,Ceyx

  Morpheus took the drowned form of Ceyx and appeared to Alcyone in her sleep, water streaming from his phantom beard and hair, to tell her that her husband had perished at sea and that she should mourn him.

• Hera

  Hera commanded Hypnos through Iris to reveal the truth of Ceyx's death to Alcyone. Morpheus carried out the task, appearing in Ceyx's drowned form to deliver the divine message in Alcyone's dream.