Nyx
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In Greek mythology, Nyx is the goddess and personification of the night. In Hesiod's Theogony, she is the offspring of Chaos, and the mother of Aether and Hemera by Erebus. By herself, she produces a
Nyx is shown driving to the left in a chariot pulled by two horses. To the right of her is Helios, who ascends into the sky in his quadriga at the start of the new day. Detail of an attic terracotta lekythos, attributed to the Sappho Painter, c. 500 BC.
Nyx depicted in the Paris Psalter presiding over the parting of the red sea, a 10th-century Greek manuscript, National Library of France
Roman-era bronze statuette of Nyx velificans or Selene (Getty Villa)
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Tethys (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, Tethys was one of the Titans, the children of Uranus and Gaia, the sister and wife of the Titan Oceanus, and the mother of the river gods and the Oceanids. Although Tethys had no a
Mosaic (detail) of Tethys from Alexandretta
Mosaic (detail) of Tethys, from Philipopolis (modern Shahba, Syria), fourth-century AD, Shahba Museum.
Detail of Tethys attending the wedding of Peleus and Thetis on an Attic black-figure dinos by Sophilos, c. 600–550 BC, British Museum 971.11–1.1.
Mosaic (detail) of Tethys and Oceanus, excavated from the House of Menander, Daphne (modern Harbiye, Turkey), third century AD, Hatay Archaeology Museum 1013.