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)
Altar Pérgamo Moiras 15
Eris (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, Eris is the goddess and personification of strife and discord, particularly in war, and in the Iliad. According to Hesiod she was the daughter of primordial Nyx, and the mother of
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…Distress), the Hesperides, the Moirai (Fates), the Keres, Nemesis (Indignation, Retribution), Apate (Deceit), Philotes (Love), Geras (Old Age), and Eris (Strife). A number of these offspring are similarly described as her children by later authors. Other early sources, however, give genealogies which…
Winged Eris on an Attic black-figure cup, c. 550–540 BC, Antikensammlung Berlin
El Juicio de Paris by Enrique Simonet, 1904
Golden apple of discord by Jakob Jordaens, 1633
Das Urteil des Paris by Anton Raphael Mengs, c. 1757