Sleep
Family: Olympian · Role: god · First appears: BOOK XIV
🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Sleep)
Life events
- Sleep accepts Juno’s promise of marriage to Pasithea in exchange for aiding her plan.(BOOK XIV · 📍 Lemnos)
- With: Juno Pasithea
- “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.””
- Apollo removes Sarpedon’s body, cleanses it, and entrusts it to Death and Sleep for transport to Lycia.(BOOK XVI · 📍 Lycia)
BOOK XIV
- siblings with Death “There she met Sleep, own brother to Death”
- courtship with Pasithea “Pasithea, whom you have always wanted to marry”
- admired: Pasithea “Pasithea, whom you have always wanted to marry”
- guardian: Night “had not Night who cows both men and gods protected me”
BOOK XVI
- with Sarpedon (interaction) “the two fleet messengers, Death, and Sleep, who presently set him down in the rich land of Lycia”
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Extracted from the original text of The Iliad. Made with Rho MD.