Talk:Morpheus

message: : The drug morphine derives its name from Morpheus based on its similar dream-inducing power.
Is morphine dream-inducing, or sleep-inducing? —This unsigned comment was added by 68.67.108.80 (talk • contribs) 2005-02-14 05:26:17 UTC.
It makes you sleep in a deep sleep and it takes away your pain This unsigned comment was added by User:63.193.184.2
"Icelus assisted with those aspects of dreams that reflected reality. Phobetor made fearsome dreams (hence "phobia"). Phantasus produced tricky and unreal dreams (hence "fantasy", "phantasmagoria", etc.)."
Just wondering, where did this information come from? I haven't seen it anywhere but here.  
Yumecosmos 14:26, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: There's a picture to the right of this article which says that Thanatos is Morpheus' half-brother.  Yet the article insisted that Thanatos was his uncle.  So i changed it.
Hypno is Morpheus' father/half-brother, so Thanatos is actually Morpheus' uncle/half-brother... It's a wonky Oedipus-esque kind of thing. I'm not going to make any changes, just explaining the confusion. :) 204.52.215.113 07:45, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brother 

message: Whereas the main text affirms Morpheus' mother is Pasithea, leaving Nyx the role of grandmother, the sidebox affirms Nyx *is* his mother. Which is correct? I don't know. Anyone? Bruno Unna (talk) 15:59, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mother 

message: There's some wikitext [] about the Matrix character, and the character also features in the Sandman series. Actually, the more I hunt for wikilinks, the messier my tab bar gets. A clean-up is in order, or perhaps a more judicious redirect. When I get time (if it's not already been done by then) I will do it. Drjon 00:58, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirects 

message: "Morpheus is also the name of a musical piece that can be played by a range of instruments, including the clarinet, piano and viola. The piece gives the impressions of nightmares which was obviously inspired by the name of the Greek god of the same name." I removed this as a courtesy, since it seemed to be more like an opinion than a fact of any kind, and was almost unrelated to the article as a whole.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.86.1.61 (talk) 02:27, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Citation? 

message: it's not a wonky oedipus-esque type thing, it's mythology, and there are different versions of any myth.  this article is terrible and i'm redoing it.
--Harlequence 04:03, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  mythology 

message: Ovid was a Roman poet.  I am not sure that Morpheus was Greek, perhaps a Roman myth?
No, I'm pretty sure Morpheus is a Greek god, Morpheus name implies the greek word Morphe (what means form)
And his father Hypnos is a Greek god Hermes13 (talk) 20:33, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greek or Roman 

message: How could you guys forget to mention the role of the name Morpheus in The Matrix? Anyhow, could anybody word my addition better? Tomer M (talk) 21:50, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Matrix 

message: The article criticizes the work for "incorrectly" referring to Morpheus as "God of dreams" yet the very first line in this article reads "Morpheus is the Greek God of dreams." Either the explanation to Glen or Glenda's error needs to be rewritten or this point is flat out wrong. D Boland (talk) 22:21, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Glen or Glenda 

message: My apologies as I inadvertently overwrote . I was traveling by ferry & temporarily lost connectivity on my cellular hot spot. I refreshed my browser a couple of times because it was failing to display my changed code. I was then able to get back my changed code before the preview. Doing this must have mucked up the session data, as when I submitted, I did not get an edit conflict that I would normally would see in such situations. Peaceray (talk) 16:51, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Not a problem ;-) Paul August ☎ 16:54, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
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message: — Assignment last updated by Rockethound (talk) 21:50, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: HUM 202 - Introduction to Mythology

message: Thanks for providing these sources, however both the sources and proposed new content are problematic. Let's discuss the three new sentences you've added to the lead:
1. "However, other sources refer to Morpheus as the son of Hypnos and Pasithea. His father, Hypnos, is known as the God of Sleep, whereas his mother, Pasithea, is referred to as the Goddess of Relaxation and Rest."
:The earliest mention of a god named Morpheus occurs in Ovid's Metamorphoses (Griffin, p. 249). Griffin goes on to say that "Ovid may have invented the [name Morphesus] or taken [it] from some lost Hellenistic source". So if Morpheus is an Ovidian invention then Greek mythology never had Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep, having a son named Morpheus. And even if Ovid took this from some lost source, it seems it would still only have come from a Hellenistic source. The ancient Greeks, did not generally personify dreams (Grimal, s.v. Oneiros, p. 328). However, in the few examples inwhich such personifications do exist, the name used was either Oneiros (Dream) or the Oneiroi (Dreams) (see Oneiros). Certainly Homer does not mention Morpheus, even though he had occasion to in both the Iliad and the Odyssey. Saying that Morpheus is the son of Hypnos, relies on the logic that, since Morpheus was, according to Ovid, the son of Somnus (Sleep), and since the Roman Somnus is "equivalent" to the Greek Hypnos, then Morpheus must also have been the son of the Greek god Hypnos. Which might be thought of, in a very loose sense, as true, and so you will find this assertion repeated by people like Goodman, who is an MD, and so not a high quality source on classical mythology. I don't think asserting this parentage for Morpheus is appropriate. Paul August ☎ 15:29, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: In my edition of Graves (1988), I find no mention of Morpheus on p. 162, nor in the index. Can you tell me what section of Graves work this this mention of Morpheus occurs? Also Graves's book is not particularly reliable, since much of it is highly speculative. In any case, while this might certainly be true, I would like to see some examples of the "often" times Morpheus has been "credited" with this ability, before asserting this in Wikipedia's voice. (As for the meaning of the name, that is already covered, with better sourcing in the lead sentence.) Paul August ☎ 15:46, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

text: I can find no mention of Morpheus on page 302, nor any mention of Morpheus in art, in Grimal's entry on Morpheus on p. 296. Paul August ☎ 15:51, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
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