Dreams and night visions that carry a message from the gods: Jacob’s ladder at Bethel, Dumuzi’s dream of his own death, God’s warning to Abimelech, Abram’s vision in the darkness, Endymion’s endless sleep.
Endymion chooses to sleep forever, and the moon comes down to him. A reading of the shepherd who charted the moon, through Pliny, Lucian, Apollonius, Athenaeus, Pausanias, Nonnus’s link to Narcissus, and Kierkegaard on sleep as genius.