Editing Nyx (section)

=== Late sources ===
[[File:BnF MS Gr139 folio 419 verso - detail - Nyx.jpg|thumb|Nyx depicted in the [[Paris Psalter]], a 10th-century Greek manuscript, National Library of France<ref>''[[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae|LIMC]]'' [http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-73d5f06e0c542-2 3559 (Nyx 6)].</ref>]]
In the works of Roman poets, descriptions of Nox (the Roman equivalent of Nyx) put a greater emphasis on her terrifying nature.<ref>''Brill's New Pauly'', [https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/nyx-e827340 s.v. Nyx]; Papastavrou, [https://archive.org/details/limc_20210516/Lexicon%20Iconographicum%20Mythologiae%20Classicae/LIMC%20VI-1%20Kentauroi%20et%20Kentaurides-O%C4%B1ax/page/n577/mode/2up p. 941].</ref> In [[Virgil]]'s ''[[Aeneid]]'' (1st century BC) she seems to have lived in the underworld,<ref>Smith, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=nyx-bio-1 s.v. Nyx]; [[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/virgil-aeneid/1916/pb_LCL063.559.xml 6.390 (pp. 558&ndash;61)].</ref> and drives a chariot across the sky,<ref>[[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/virgil-aeneid/1916/pb_LCL063.521.xml 5.721 (pp. 520, 521)].</ref> while [[Tibullus]] (1st century BC) describes her chariot as being pulled by four horses,<ref>[[Tibullus]], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/tibullus-elegies/1913/pb_LCL006.295.xml 3.4.17 (pp. 294, 295)].</ref> and relates that the Stars come behind her in her journey, with Sleep following after them.<ref>[[Tibullus]], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/tibullus-elegies/1913/pb_LCL006.259.xml 2.1.87&ndash;90 (pp. 258, 259)].</ref> In the ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'', [[Statius]] reports that Sleep is her "charioteer",<ref>Keightley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=JxQHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA46 p. 46]; [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.99.xml 2.59&ndash;60 (pp. 98, 99)]. Cf. ''Brill's New Pauly'', [https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/nyx-e827340 s.v. Nyx], which calls him her "coachman".</ref> while [[Ovid]], in his ''[[Fasti]]'', describes her as wearing a "wreath of poppy" around her head.<ref>''Brill's New Pauly'', [https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/nyx-e827340 s.v. Nyx]; [[Ovid]], ''[[Fasti]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-fasti/1931/pb_LCL253.237.xml 661&ndash;2 (pp. 236, 237)].</ref>

In the works of Greek poets, [[Thetis]] is a Nereid who attracts the attention of both [[Zeus]] and [[Poseidon]], until they receive a prophecy from the Titan [[Themis]] warning them that any son she produces will be greater in power than his father;<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA52 p. 52].</ref> according to the late Greek writer [[Libanius]] (4th century AD), however, it is Nyx who delivers this prophecy, rather than Themis.<ref>Barringer, p. 70; Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA25 pp. 25&ndash;6]; Westermann, [https://archive.org/details/mythographoiscri00westuoft/page/378/mode/2up?view=theater p. 379].</ref> In the ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' of [[Nonnus]] (5th century), the goddess [[Iris (mythology)|Iris]], on the request on Hera, approaches Hypnos in the "ugly form" of his mother Nyx, and in a lengthy speech persuades him to help set Zeus to sleep.<ref>Verhelst, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZbhRDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA56 p. 56]; [[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/nonnos-dionysiaca/1940/pb_LCL354.431.xml 31.110&ndash;96 (pp. 430&ndash;7)]. Verhelst compares this to the story in the ''[[Iliad]]'' in which Hera tries to convince Hypnos (see above).</ref>