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Hypnos

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Hypnos
god of slumber. [Gk. Myth.: Hall, 250]
See : Sleep

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Large producers of mattresses, beds and accessories have created alliances with 1-800-Mattress, among them Sealy, Serta, Simmons, King Koil, Nation's Pride, Tempurpedic, Spring Air, Hypnos and 1-800-Private Label, says Andreina Gonzalez, company marketing manager for 1-800-Mattress.
What Edwin Becker, curator at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, writes in the catalogue about Hypnos applies here too: The "image has been carefully cropped, so that a nipple is just delicately visible at the lower edge.
Jean-Marie Maguin examines how myths of the rival brothers, Hypnos (Sleep) and Thanatos (Death), inform the sleep-death that Friar Laurence induces in Juliet with his potion.
 
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