Nyx

Sources Information

Derveni

• Santamaria 2019, pp. 50–1: (D) cf. with Gaia
• Bernabe 2019

• p. 110: (D) First deity (see also n. 27)
• p. 113: (D) Prophecy, retreat to adyton

• Find Piano 2010 re cf. Gaia
• Improve sourcing? ^[1]

Structure Information

• Genealogy
• Literary sources

• Early
• Late
• Orphic

• An ancient theogony?
• Eudemian Theogony
• Derveni Theogony
• Hieronyman Theogony
• Rhapsodies
• Later sources

• Iconography
• Cult

Text Information

Other Information

Images

• Unused: Gigantomachy frieze, Paris Psalter

Possible sources

• Antagoras: see BNJ comm to 20 F2
• Mention "power over gods and men"
• Derveni papyrus: heating & cooling (Meisner, p. 205), adyton (Betegh, p. 110)
• Euphrone: Rose Hyginus Mnemosyne article; Chrysanthou, p. 312; See Betegh bibl. for Tortorelli Ghidini 1985 "Euphrone: una divinita orfica"
• fr. 114 VII (p. 122), fr. 149 II (Meisner, p. 197), fr. 246 III (p. 216)
• Iconography: Parthenon Hurwit, Kasuvu
• Rewrite first sentence of Roman sources section? - see history; Papastavrou, BNP
• Clay, p. 96
• p. 71 on Orpheus and Musaeus, line 18 Proclus mention of worship
• References to some kind of worship/invoking: Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.192; Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.403; Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 5.396. Cult: Paus 1.40.6, Ovid Fasti 5.421, Statius Thebaid 1.497
• Elsewhere in Aeschylus Eumenides [1] [2] [3]