In Aristophanes' comedy Birds, Chaos, Erebus, Nyx and Tartarus were the first beings, before the existence of Earth, air or heaven. In a cosmogony attributed to Alcman, Erebus is apparently the fourth being to come into existence, after Thetis, Poros and Tekmor. In Cicero's De Natura Deorum, the following are 'fabled' to be the children of Erebus and Nox (Night): Aether, Dies (Day), Amor (Love), Dolus (Guile), Metus (Fear), Labor (Toil), Invidentia (Envy), Fatum (Fate), Senectus (Old Age), Mors (Death), Tenebrae (Darkness), Miseria (Misery), Querella (Lamentation), Gratia (Favour), Fraus (Fraud), Pertinacia (Obstinacy), the Parcae (the Fates), the Hesperides and the Somnia (Dreams). Īccording to the Fabulae of Hyginus, Erebus, Nox (Night), Aether and Dies (Day) are the offspring of Chaos and Caligine (Mist), and Erebus, by Nox, is the father of Fate, Old age, Death, Destruction, Strife, Sleep, Dreams, Thoughtfulness, Hedymeles, Porphyrion, Epaphus, Discord, Misery, Petulance, Nemesis, Cheerfulness, Friendship, Pity, Styx, the Parcae ( Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos), and the Hesperides (Aegle, Hesperia, and Erythea). Mythology Īccording to the Greek oral poet Hesiod's Theogony, Erebus is the offspring of Chaos, and the brother of Nyx, by whom he is the father of Aether and Hemera. Sanskrit rájas, Gothic riqis, Old Norse røkkr).

The name Ἔρεβος itself originates from Proto-Indo-European *h₁regʷ-es/os- 'darkness' (cf. The perceived meaning of Erebus is 'darkness' the first recorded instance of it was 'place of darkness between earth and Hades'.

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