• In Greek mythology, Thanatos (/ˈθænətɒs/; Ancient Greek: Θᾰνᾰτος, Thánatos, pronounced in. Ancient Greek: [tʰánatos] "Death", from θνῄσκω thnēskō "(I)...
  • Kılıç Taşıyan Kanatlı Thanatos, Efes'teki Artemis Tapınağı'nda Bulunan Sütun Başlığı Detayı, yak. -325-300 BC. BC, British Museum.
  • OverviewQuotesRelationships. Thanatos is the personification of Death, son of Nyx and the older twin brother of Hypnos.
  • The Greek poet Hesiod established in his Theogony that Thánatos is a son of Nyx (Night) and Erebos (Darkness) and twin of Hypnos (Sleep).
  • Thanatos lived together with his twin brother Hypnos (“Sleep”) beyond the edge of the earth, in the murky Underworld home of their mother Nyx (“Night”).
  • Thanatos is portrayed as a figure who can not be escaped from. After the 4th century BCE, the Greeks regarded death as a part of life, the natural end of living.
  • Thanatos was the daemonic representation of death in Ancient Greek mythology (daemonic here is used with its classical meaning, which refers to benevo...
  • If you thought Hades was the god of death, you thought wrong! He may have ruled over the land of the dead but it was Thanatos who took souls to his realm!
  • Thanatos, the Greek personification of Death, is an embodiment of non-violent and peaceful passing. When translated to Greek, his name literally means death.
  • Herakles, Thanatos’a Alcestes’i serbest bırakmasını söyler. İşler olumlu bir şekilde gitmediğinde ise Herakles, Thanatos ile savaşmaya karar verir.