Pasithea

Benjamin Hederich (1770) states that 'Ihr Namen soll so viel heißen, als die zu allen laufende' ('her name supposedly means "the one who runs to all"'), which he takes to refer to the universal nature and general pleasantness of sleep.

[3] Josef Korn, writing under the pseudonym Friedrich Nork, (1843) took it to mean 'die von Allen veherte Göttin' ('the Goddess revered by all'), assuming that it originally referred to Aphrodite.

In book 14, Hera approaches Hypnos, the god of sleep, for help in temporarily removing Zeus from the action of the Trojan War.

[13] She is mentioned briefly by the Roman poet Catullus (c. 84 – c. 54 BCE) in Poem 63, and in an epigram attributed to Antipater of Thessalonica in the Greek Anthology as the consort of Hypnos.

[14][15] She is also mentioned passingly by the Roman poet Statius, who, in contrast to Homer, makes her the eldest of the Graces in his Thebaid, but gives no other details about her.

In book 13 of the poem, Zeus orders Dionysus to "drive out of Asia with his avenging thyrsus the proud race of Indians untaught of justice".

[27][28] The story is that of Aphrodite and Ares being caught in flagrante delicto by Hephaestus in a trap of his own design – a skillfully made golden net of thread so fine as to be invisible.

When the two are finally freed Aphrodite flees to Paphos where the Graces – unnamed – bathe her, anoint her with oil, and clothe her in fine garments.