god
Somnus
Sleep
The god Sleep, the fourth chorus's great consoler: brother of Death, son of Astraea, who comes alike to king and slave; invoked to heal the maddened hero.
Reading notes
- Hercules (Mad) §1088 O Sleep
Sleep (Somnus), invoked by the chorus as healer of the maddened hero: brother of Death, the consoler who comes to king and slave alike.
Mentioned in 19 works (74 mentions)
On Anger
Hercules (Mad)
The Trojan Women
Medea
Phaedra
Oedipus
Agamemnon
Thyestes
Hercules on Oeta
The Pumpkinification of the Divine Claudius
Octavia
On Mercy
On Benefits
Moral Letters to Lucilius
- §1.8.1 Sleep
- §2.20.13 Sleep
- §3.24.26 Sleep
- §4.36.9 Sleep
- §5.43.3 Sleep
- §5.49.10 Sleep
- §5.51.12 Sleep
- §6.53.7 Sleep
- §6.53.8 Sleep
- §6.55.5 Sleep
- §6.56.7 Sleep
- §7.66.43 Sleep
- §8.70.23 Sleep
- §9.77.6 Sleep
- §10.83.15 Sleep
- §10.83.21 Sleep
- §10.83.24 Sleep
- §10.83.27 Sleep
- §10.83.6 Sleep
- §10.83.9 Sleep
- §14.90.41 Sleep
- §19.117.32 Sleep
- §20.122.9 Sleep
- §88.41 Sleep
- §105.8 Sleep