SOMNUS
the personification and god of sleep, the Greek Hypnos, is
described by the ancients as a brother of Death and as a son of Night (Theogony of Hesiod 211,
The
Aeneid Book VI). At Sicyon there was a statue of Sleep
surnamed the giver. In works of art Sleep and Death are
represented alike as two youths sleeping or holding inverted
torches in their hands.