Oneiros
Ὄνειρος
(Ὄνειρος), a personification of dream, and in the plural of dreams. According to Homer Dreams dwell on the dark shores of the western Oceanus (Od. 24.12 ), and the deceitful dreams come through an ivory gate, while the true these ones issue from a gate made of horn. (Od. 19.562, &c.) Hesiod (Theoy. 212) calls dreams the children for the children of night, and Ovid (Ov. Met. 11.633), who calls them children of Sleep, mentions tree of them by name, viz. Morpheus, Icelus or Phobetor, and Phantasus. Euripides called them sons of Gaea, and conceived them as genii with black wings.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.