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The earliest surviving representation of Nyx is an Attic lekythos (c. 500 BC), which shows her driving a two-horse chariot away from Helios, who is ascending into the sky in his quadriga at the start of the new day. [167] Most depictions of Nyx portray her as having wings, and in early representations she is usually shown riding in a chariot. [168]
Like her mother Nyx, Hesiod has Eris as the mother—with no father mentioned—of many children (the only child of Nyx with offspring) who are also personifications representing various misfortunes and harmful things which, in Eris' case, might be thought to result from discord and strife [6] All of Eris' children are little more than ...
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Hesiod says Nyx and Erebus together had Aether and Hemera, but Nyx had the other children on her own. Cicero and Hyginus say Nyx had all her children with Erebus. In Virgil's Aeneid, Nox is said to be the mother of the Furies by Hades. [18] Some authors made Nyx the mother of Eos, the dawn goddess, who was often conflated with Nyx's daughter ...
According to Hesiod's Theogony, Nemesis was one of the children of Nyx alone. [4] Nemesis has been described as the daughter of Oceanus, Erebus, or Zeus, [citation needed] but according to Hyginus she was a child of Erebus and Nyx. Some made her the daughter of Zeus by an unnamed mother. [5]
Moros is the offspring of Nyx, the primordial goddess of the night. It is suggested by Roman authors that Moros was sired by Erebus, primordial god of darkness. [3] However, in Hesiod's Theogony it is suggested that Nyx bore him by herself, along with several of her other children.
In Hesiod's Theogony, Philotes is described as one of the children of Nyx (Night). [1] In later genealogies given by Roman authors, she is the offspring of Erebus (Darkness) and Nox (the Roman name for Nyx). [2] Her siblings are said to be, among others, Apate (Deceit), Nemesis (Indignation), and Eris (Strife)