Who did Nyx sleep with?

The inscriptions declare, as one could infer without inscriptions, that the figures are Thanatos (Death) and Hypnos (Sleep), with Nyx (Night) the nurse of both."
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Who was Nyx in love with?

From Chaos came forth Erebus and black Night. Nyx, the personification of night, then married her brother Erebus, the personification of darkness, and bore two children by him: but of Night were born Aether and Day [Hemera], whom she conceived and bore from union in love with Erebus.
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Who does Nyx marry?

She was married to Erebus and had a number of children, including Nemesis (retribution), Hypnos (sleep), Thanatos (death), Geras (old age), Eris (strife) and Charon (the boatman who brought the souls of the dead to the gates of the underworld).
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Why is Zeus scared of Nyx?

It is commonly thought that Nyx is the only goddess that Zeus is truly afraid of because she is older and more powerful than him. This traces back to one story in which Hera, Zeus' wife and goddess of marriage and childbirth, works together with Hypnos, the god of sleep, to trick Zeus.
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Did Hades and Nyx have a relationship?

Hades: Hades and Nyx manage the domain together. They mostly tolerate and begrudgingly respect each other, even if they fight at times. While he controls the punishment of Titans and primordial gods, she appears to have some kind of arrangement with him to have avoided a similar fate for herself.
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Did Persephone and Ares hook up?

Although the two love each other deeply, they are not exclusive and openly sleep with multiple partners. Ares kisses Persephone in the mortal realm and later flirts with her in the house he shares with Aphrodite. There appears to be an unspoken rule for Aphrodite to never sleep with Ares' Father, Zeus.
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Who was the ugliest god?

Hephaestus. Hephaestus is the son of Zeus and Hera. Sometimes it is said that Hera alone produced him and that he has no father. He is the only god to be physically ugly.
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What did Nyx look like?

Nyx, the ancient Greek goddess of the night, was the daughter of Chaos. The primordial god was born near the beginning of time in Gaia. Additionally, ancient art and scriptures depict Nyx as a beautiful woman dressed in black, surrounded by mist.
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Who is Chaos husband?

Afterward, Night, impregnated by the wind, laid an egg in Erebus, out of which golden-winged Eros was born. And then, in Tartarus, Eros mated with Chaos, who subsequently gave birth to the race of birds.
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Is Nyx older than Gaea?

Trivia. At The House of Hades, Akhlys and Annabeth Chase refer to Nyx as being older than Gaea, thus making her the oldest daughter of Chaos. However, in Percy Jackson's Greek Gods, Nyx is said to have been created after the emergence of Gaea, Ouranos, Pontos, and Tartarus.
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Who is Nyx afraid of?

Nyx, in Greek mythology, female personification of night but also a great cosmogonical figure, feared even by Zeus, the king of the gods, as related in Homer's Iliad, Book XIV.
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Who is stronger Erebus or Nyx?

Because being darkness direct manifestation and personification, his powers are equivalent to those of his wife Nyx but below Darkness and Ayin. Darkness Empowerment: Erebus become stronger, faster, more durable, etc.
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Are Hecate and Nyx related?

467 says that according to the Orphic Hymns, Hekate was a daughter of Deo [Demeter]; that according to Bacchylides, a daughter of Nyx (Night); according to Musaeus, a daughter of Zeus and Asteria; and that according to Pherecydes, she was a daughter of Aristaios (Aristaeus).
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Are Nyx and NOX the same?

Unlike most of the Roman gods you have chosen so far, who at least have something distinguishable from their Greek counterparts, Nox has virtually no difference to Nyx apart from the fact that she was mentioned notably almost never in Roman mythology, whereas Nyx is extremely important in Greek mythology.
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Is Nyx a Titan or a goddess?

Nyx is a Primordial Goddess of the Night. She is also the Mother of Thanatos. She first appears in Episode 77, speaking to Hades while he is unconscious.
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Who is the strongest god?

Zeus was the Greek god that both deities and man would call upon for help. Zeus would help the other gods, goddesses, and mortals if they needed help, but would also invoke his wrath upon them if he felt they weren't worthy of his help. This made Zeus the strongest Greek god in Greek mythology.
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Who is the god of poop?

Sterculius is the god in question. He's Roman, not Greek. And “feces” is kind of stretching a point. He was the god, actually, of manure.
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Who slept with Aphrodite?

POSEIDON The god of the sea had an affair with Aphrodite who was grateful for his support following the revelation of her adulterous relationship with Ares. She bore him two daughters Rhodos and Herophilos.
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Why is Athena a virgin?

Althought Athena is a virgin goddess, she mothered the god Erichthonios by Hephaestus. According to myth, she went to Hephaestus wanting some weapons forged. When Hephaestus tried to rape her, she protected her virginity and he ejaculated on her leg.
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Are Nyx and Erebus related?

According to the Greek oral poet Hesiod's Theogony, Erebus is the offspring of Chaos, and the brother of Nyx, by whom he is the father of Aether and Hemera.
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What is NOX the god of?

Nox is the primordial Roman Goddess and personification of the night, who was held in great esteem among the ancients. Her counterpart is the Greek Goddess Nyx, though she is truly an avatar of the Greek goddess to deal with the Roman Empire.
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What is the Ferryman's name?

Charon, in Greek mythology, the son of Erebus and Nyx (Night), whose duty it was to ferry over the Rivers Styx and Acheron those souls of the deceased who had received the rites of burial. In payment he received the coin that was placed in the mouth of the corpse.
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