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In the Greek tradition, Hypnos (Sleep) was the brother of Thanatos (Death), and the son of Nyx (Night). [6] According to Hesiod, Sleep, along with Death, live in the underworld, [7] while in the Homeric tradition, although "the land of dreams" was located on the road to the underworld, near the great world-encircling river Oceanus, nearby the city of Cimmerians, [8] Sleep himself lived on the ...
Syriac manuscript of Eusebius' History of the Church (Russian National Library, Codex Syriac 1.) Although more numerous than for the preceding period, the written sources we have for the Low Roman often reflect conflicts between pagan and Christian authors, as well as within the Christian Church itself, between the so-called "Nicene" [Notes 4] and Arian authors.
Oedipus Separating from Jocasta by Alexandre Cabanel. In psychoanalytic theory, the Jocasta complex is the incestuous sexual desire of a mother towards her son. [1]Raymond de Saussure introduced the term in 1920 by way of analogy to its logical converse in psychoanalysis, the Oedipus complex, and it may be used to cover different degrees of attachment, [2] including domineering but asexual ...
Satyr and nymph, mythological symbols of sexuality on a mosaic from a bedroom in Pompeii. Sexual attitudes and behaviors in ancient Rome are indicated by art, literature, and inscriptions, and to a lesser extent by archaeological remains such as erotic artifacts and architecture. It has sometimes been assumed that "unlimited sexual license" was ...
Homosexuality in ancient Rome often differs markedly from the contemporary West. Latin lacks words that would precisely translate "homosexual" and "heterosexual". [ 1] The primary dichotomy of ancient Roman sexuality was active / dominant / masculine and passive / submissive / feminine. Roman society was patriarchal, and the freeborn male ...
Morpheus, painted by Jean-Bernard Restout. Morpheus ('Fashioner', derived from the Ancient Greek: μορφή meaning 'form, shape') [ 1] is a god associated with sleep and dreams. In Ovid 's Metamorphoses he is the son of Somnus and appears in dreams in human form. From the Middle Ages, the name began to stand more generally for the god of ...
Servilia ( c. 100 BC – after 42 BC) [ 2] was a Roman matron from a distinguished family, the Servilii Caepiones. She was the daughter of Quintus Servilius Caepio and Livia, thus the maternal half-sister of Cato the Younger. She married Marcus Junius Brutus, with whom she had a son, the Brutus who, along with others in the Senate, assassinated ...
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