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Nyx
Nyx
Personification of Night
	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. Attic terracotta lekythos, attributed to the Sappho Painter, c. 500 BC.
Personal information
Parents	Chaos
Siblings	Erebus
Consort	Erebus
Children	Aether, Hemera, Moros, Apate, Dolos, Nemesis, the Keres, the Moirai, the Hesperides, the Erinyes, Oizys, Momus, Oneiros, Hypnos, Thanatos, Philotes, Geras, Eris
Equivalents
Roman equivalent	Nox

In Greek mythology, Nyx (/nɪks/ NIX;^[2] Ancient Greek: Νύξ Nýx, [nýks], "Night")^[3] is the goddess and personification of the night.^[4] In Hesiod's Theogony, she is the offspring of Chaos, and the mother of Aether and Hemera (Day) by Erebus (Darkness). By herself, she produces a brood of children which are personifications of primarily negative forces. She features in a number of early cosmogonies, which place her as one of the first deities to exist. In the works of poets and playwrights, she lives at the ends of the Earth, and is often described as a black-robed goddess who drives through the sky in a chariot pulled by horses. In the Iliad, Homer relates that even Zeus fears to displease her.

Night is a prominent figure in several theogonies of Orphic literature, in which she is often described as the mother of Uranus and Gaia. In the earliest Orphic cosmogonies, she is the first deity to exist, while in the later Orphic Rhapsodies, she is the daughter and consort of Phanes, and the second ruler of the gods. She delivers prophecies to Zeus from an adyton, and is described as the nurse of the gods. In the Rhapsodies, there may have been three separate figures named Night.

In ancient Greek art, Nyx often appears alongside other celestial deities such as Selene, Helios and Eos, as a winged figure driving a horse-pulled chariot. Though of little cultic importance, she was also associated with several oracles. The name of her Roman equivalent is Nox.^[5]

^ Ferrari, p. 40; Metropolitan Museum of Art 41.162.29.
^ Tripp, p. 624.
^ LSJ, s.v. νύξ.
^ Grimal, s.v. Nyx, p. 314.
^ Tripp, s.v. Nyx, p. 399; Peck, s.v. Nyx.

[1] Ferrari, p. 40; Metropolitan Museum of Art 41.162.29.

[2] Tripp, p. 624.

[3] LSJ, s.v. νύξ.

[4] Grimal, s.v. Nyx, p. 314.

[5] Tripp, s.v. Nyx, p. 399; Peck, s.v. Nyx.

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