Thanatos (Death) Greek The personification of death (Mors in Latin).
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Thanatos (Death) Greek The personification of death (Mors in Latin). The son of Nyx (Night), with no father (according to Hesiod); twin brother of Hypnos (Sleep). The only mortal who managed to outwit Thanatos (at least for a while) was Sisyphus.
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- Hypnos (Sleep) Greek The personification of sleep and the twin brother of Thanatos (Death); the son of Nyx (Night) and Erebus (Darkness).
- Mors (Death) Roman The goddess or personification of death.
- Moria (Folly) Greek The heroine of a story of overcoming death.
- Nemesis Greek Goddess of vengeance; personification of the wrath of the gods toward those who had hubris, a Greek word meaning exaggerated pride in one's achievements or good fortune.
- Nessus Greek The Centaur who caused the death of the hero Heracles.