Thanatos (Mors)

Thanatos in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Thánatos (in Greek, Θάνατος – "Death") was the daemon personification of death. He was a minor figure in Greek mythology, often referred to but rarely appearing in person. His name is transliterated in Latin as Thanatus, but his equivalent in Roman mythology is Mors or Letus/Letum, and he is sometimes identified erroneously...

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Thanatos in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Qa/natos), Latin Mors, a personification of Death. In the Homeric poems Death does not appear as a distinct divinity, though he is described as the brother of Sleep, together with whom he carries the body of Sarpedon from the field of battle to the country of the Lycians. (Il. 16.672, 14.231.) In Hesiod (Theog. 211, &100.756) he is a son...

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