id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4101 Thanatos - Wikipedia .html text/html 2395 281 72 This article is about the Greek personification of death. Homer also confirmed Hypnos and Thanatos as twin brothers in his epic poem, the Iliad, where they were charged by Zeus via Apollo with the swift delivery of the slain hero Sarpedon to his homeland of Lycia. Thanatos has also been portrayed as a slumbering infant in the arms of his mother Nyx, or as a youth carrying a butterfly (the ancient Greek word "ψυχή" can mean soul or butterfly, or life, amongst other things) or a wreath of poppies (poppies were associated with Hypnos and Thanatos because of their hypnogogic traits and the eventual death engendered by overexposure to them). Thanatos at the Greek Mythology link Mythography : The Greek God Thanatos in Myth and Art "Thanatos" Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant Categories: Greek death gods ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4101.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4101.txt