Erebus

Erebus (Graece ) in mythologia Graeca fuit deus primordialis, secundum Hesiodum filius Chai, frater Noctis, pater Aetheris et Diei.Hesiodi Theogonia 123–25. Est tenebrarum infernarum prosopopoeia.

Genealogia Hygini mythographi paulo ab Hesiodi descriptione differt:
Ex Caligine Chaos: ex Chao et Caligine Nox Dies Erebus Aether. ex Nocte et Erebo Fatum Senectus Mors Letum †Continentia Somnus Somnia <Amor> id est Lysimeles, Epiphron †dumiles Porphyrion Epaphus Discordia Miseria Petulantia Nemesis Euphrosyne Amicitia Misericordia Styx; Parcae tres, id est Clotho Lachesis Atropos; Hesperides, Aegle Hesperie †aerica.

In Graecis litteris, Erebus locus subterraneus esse constat, quem mortui transeunt cum primum moriuntur. Auctores interdum Erebo et Tartaro indistincte utuntur.Elizabeth, Alice (1896).Morford, Mark P. O. (1999).Peck, Harry Thurston (1897).Rengel, Marian (2009).Turner, Patricia (2001). Nomen Ἔρεβος ortum est a Protoindoeuropaea radice *h1regʷ-es/os- "tenebrae"Harper, Douglas.R. S. P. Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009, p. 451. (cf. Sanscrite rájas, Gothice riqis, Nordice vetere røkkr).Ἔρεβος.

 Notae 

 Fontes 
 Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (1914). "Theogony". The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Perseus Digital Library Project. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 
 Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). "E'rebos"

 Charon
 Nox
 Cosmogonia

 Nexus externi 
 The Theoi Project, "Erebos"

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