Personification
Hypnos
Ὕπνος
Roman:
Somnus
Overview
Personification of sleep.
Generation
Primordial descendants
Parents
Children
No children recorded.
Beyond Antiquity
Modern Legacy
Hypnos still appears in the modern world through language, science, medicine, astronomy or culture.
Hypnosis
Today: A state of focused attention and increased responsiveness to suggestion.
Hypnosis derives from Greek hypnos, meaning sleep. Hypnos was also the divine personification of sleep in Greek mythology.
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