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Nyx - Other Greek texts |  | Nyx - Other Greek texts: Encyclopedia II - Nyx - Other Greek texts |  | Night is also the first principle in the opening chorus of Aristophanes's Birds, which may be Orphic in inspiration. Here she is also the mother of Eros. In other texts she may be the mother of Charon (with Erebus), and Phthonus "envy" (with Dionysus?).
The theme of Night's cave or house, beyond the ocean (as in Hesiod) or somewhere at the edge of the cosmos (as in later Orphism) may be echoed in the philosophical poem of Parmenides. The classical scholar Walter Burkert has speculated that the house of the goddess to which the philosopher is transported is the palace of Night; this hy ...
See also:Nyx, Nyx - Nyx in Hesiod, Nyx - Nyx in Homer, Nyx - Nyx in Orphic Poetry, Nyx - Other Greek texts, Nyx - Cults of Night, Nyx - Nyx outside of Greece |  | | Nyx, Nyx - Cults of Night, Nyx - Nyx in Hesiod, Nyx - Nyx in Homer, Nyx - Nyx in Orphic Poetry, Nyx - Nyx outside of Greece, Nyx - Other Greek texts |  | |
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Nyx - Other Greek texts
Night is also the first principle in the opening chorus of Aristophanes's Birds, which may be Orphic in inspiration. Here she is also the mother of Eros. In other texts she may be the mother of Charon (with Erebus), and Phthonus "envy" (with Dionysus?).
The theme of Night's cave or house, beyond the ocean (as in Hesiod) or somewhere at the edge of the cosmos (as in later Orphism) may be echoed in the philosophical poem of Parmenides. The classical scholar Walter Burkert has speculated that the house of the goddess to which the philosopher is transported is the palace of Night; this hypothesis, however, must remain tentative.
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