Įuripides, in his play Hecuba has Hecuba call "lady Earth" the "mother of black-winged dreams". Their siblings include: Moros (Doom), Ker (Destiny), Thanatos (Death), Hypnos (Sleep), Momus (Blame), Oizys (Pain), Keres (Destinies), Nemesis (Retribution), Eris (Discord), and other abstract personifications. Hesiod in his genealogical poem the Theogony, makes the "tribe of Dreams" ( φῦλον Ὀνείρων), among the many offspring of Nyx (Night), without a father. In another passage of the Odyssey, truthful dreams are said to come through a gate made of horn, while deceitful dreams come through a gate made of ivory (see Gates of horn and ivory). The Odyssey locates a " land of dreams" past the streams of Oceanus, close to Asphodel Meadows, where the spirits of the dead reside. The Oneiros goes quickly to Agamemnon's tent, and finding him asleep, stands above Agamemnon's head taking the shape of Nestor, a trusted counselor to Agamemnon, the Oneiros speaks to Agamemnon, as Zeus had instructed him. An Oneiros is summoned by Zeus, and ordered to go to the camp of the Greeks at Troy and deliver a message from Zeus urging him to battle. In Homer's Iliad, Zeus decides to send a "baleful dream" to Agamemnon, the commander of the Greek army during the Trojan War. However, a few instances of the personification of dreams, some perhaps solely poetic, can be found in ancient Greek sources. Sources įor the ancient Greeks, dreams were not generally personified. Oneiros was also, according to some myths, the name of one of the sons of Achilles with Deidamia. In the Iliad of Homer, Zeus sends an Oneiros to appear to Agamemnon in a dream, while in Hesiod's Theogony, the Oneiroi are the sons of Nyx (Night), and brothers of Hypnos (Sleep). In Greek mythology, dreams were sometimes personified as Oneiros ( Ancient Greek: Ὄνειρος, lit.'dream') or Oneiroi ( Ὄνειροι, 'dreams').
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