![]() His name derives from the Greek word for form (μορφή), and his function was apparently to appear in dreams in human guise. Ovid makes Morpheus one of the thousand sons of Somnus (Sleep). In Ovid's account Juno (via the messenger goddess Iris) send Morpheus to appear to Alcyone in a dream, as her husband Ceyx, to tell her of his death. The only mention of Morpheus occurs in Ovid's Metamorphoses, where Ovid tells of the story of Ceyx and his wife Alcyone who were transformed into birds. From the Middle Ages, the name began to stand more generally for the god of dreams, or of sleep. ![]() In Ovid's Metamorphoses he is the son of Somnus and appears in dreams in human form. ![]() Morpheus ('Fashioner', derived from the Ancient Greek: μορφή meaning 'form, shape') is a god associated with sleep and dreams. ![]() Morpheus, painted by Jean-Bernard Restout ![]()
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