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In Ovid’s Metamorphoses he is the son of Somnus and appears in dreams in human form. From the Middle Ages, the name began to stand more generally for the god of dreams, or of sleep.[2]In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Morpheus is one of the thousand sons of Somnus (Sleep).[3] His name derives from the Greek word for form (\u03bc\u03bf\u03c1\u03c6\u03ae), and his function was to appear in dreams in human guise.  According to Ovid “no other is more skilled than he in representing the gait, the features, and the speech of men; the clothing also and the accustomed words of each he represents.”[4] Like other gods associated with sleep, Ovid makes Morpheus winged.[5]Ovid called Morpheus and his brothers, the other sons of Somnus, the Somnia (“dream shapes”), saying that they appear in dreams “mimicking many forms”.[6] Ovid gives names to two more of these sons of Sleep. One called Icelos (‘Like’), by the gods, but Phobetor (‘Frightener’) by men, “takes the form of beast or bird or the long serpent”, and Phantasos (‘Fantasy’), who “puts on deceptive shapes of earth, rocks, water, trees, all lifeless things”.[7]The three brothers’ names are found nowhere earlier than Ovid, and are perhaps Ovidian inventions.[8] Tripp calls these three figures “literary, not mythical concepts”.[9] However, Griffin suggests that this division of dream forms between Morpheus and his brothers, possibly including their names, may have been of Hellenistic origin.[10]Table of ContentsGallery[edit]Namesake[edit]See also[edit]References[edit]Sources[edit]Gallery[edit]Aurora wakes Morpheus by Bartolomeo Altomonte (1769)Morpheus and Iris, by Pierre-Narcisse Gu\u00e9rin, 1811 Hermitage MuseumMorpheus awakening as Iris draws near by Ren\u00e9-Antoine Houasse (1690)Fresco in the gallery of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence: Charon’s boat, the sleep of Night and Morpheus by Luca Giordano (1684\u20131686)Morpheus appears to Alcyone. Engraving by Virgil Solis for Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book XI, 650\u2013749.Morpheus appears to Alcyone. Engraving (or etching more likely) by Bauer for Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book XI, 633\u2013676.Namesake[edit]See also[edit]Dream (character)\u00a0\u2013 Protagonist of the comic book series The SandmanGates of horn and ivory\u00a0\u2013 Literary image, originally from GreekHypnos\u00a0\u2013 Personification of sleep in Greek mythologyMorphine\u00a0\u2013 Pain medication of the opiate familyOneiroi\u00a0\u2013 Personification of dreams in Greek mythologyPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targetsReferences[edit]^ Griffin, p. 249; Grimal, s.v. Morpheus, p. 296; LSJ s.v. \u03bc\u03bf\u03c1\u03c6-\u03ae.^ Kearns, s.v. Morpheus p. 968; Griffin, p. 248.^ Grimal, s.v. Morpheus, p. 296; Tripp, s.v. Somnus, p. 534; Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.633\u2013677.^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.633\u2013638.^ Grimal, s.v. Morpheus, p. 296; Griffin, p. 243; Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.652\u2013653.^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.613.^ Griffin, p. 249; Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.638\u2013643.^ Griffin, p. 249.^ Tripp, s.v. Somnus, p. 534.^ Griffin, pp. 179, 249.Sources[edit]Griffin, A. H. F. (1997), A Commentary on Ovid, Metamorphoses XI, Hermathena, vol.\u00a0162\/163, Dublin: Trinity College Dublin, pp.\u00a01\u2013290, JSTOR\u00a023041237.Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996, ISBN\u00a09780631201021.Kearns, E. (1996), “Morpheus”,  in S. Hornblower; A. Spawforth (eds.), Oxford Classical Dictionary (3rd rev.\u00a0ed.), Oxford, ISBN\u00a09780198661726.Ovid. Metamorphoses, Volume II: Books 9-15. Translated by Frank Justus Miller. Revised by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library No. 43. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1916. Online version at Harvard University Press.Tripp, Edward (June 1970). Crowell’s Handbook of Classical Mythology (First\u00a0ed.). Thomas Y. Crowell Co. ISBN\u00a0069022608X."},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/morpheus-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Morpheus – Wikipedia"}}]}]