Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Nyx.
The gallery
La Nuit (Night)
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1883
An oil painting by the French academic master William-Adolphe Bouguereau personifying Night as a graceful female figure gliding through the darkened sky, her dark veil billowing about her. It belongs to a group of allegorical canvases Bouguereau devoted to the times of day, rendering the ancient goddess of night in the polished idiom of nineteenth-century academic painting.
Night and Sleep
Evelyn De Morgan, 1878
An oil painting by the English artist Evelyn De Morgan, now in the De Morgan Foundation collection. Nyx, the goddess of night, drifts across the sky drawing her mantle of darkness over the world, while her son Hypnos floats at her side scattering the poppies of sleep. The intertwined pair show De Morgan's debt to Botticelli and the Pre-Raphaelites.
In play
Hades
Supergiant Games
Supergiant's Nyx is the House's foster mother — Night herself raising Zagreus in the dark, cooler and kinder than the Olympians above.
Hades II
Supergiant Games
She remains a pillar of the underworld household in the sequel — Night watching Melinoë's war with the same quiet authority.