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British Museum The shop at the world's oldest national museum has replica sculptures to match every décor. The winged head of Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep ($1,018) suits serene surroundings, and a head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something Like the Real Thing | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

From his desk, Hofer looks up, pointed across his office, and said, "That is my favorite thing here. It is a cast from the British Museum head of Hypnos, which is Graeco-Roman, and underneath it is written in Greek what was over the Alexandrian Library: 'A healing place for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houghton Library | 6/30/1969 | See Source »

From his desk, Hofer looked up, pointed across his office, and said, "That is my favorite thing here. it is a cast from the British Museum hear of Hypnos, which is Graeco-Roman, and underneath it is written in Greek what was over the Alexandrian Lirarv: 'A healing place for...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Old Books in and Under the Yard | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

Hypnos was a nom de guerre before it became a nom de plume. Rene Char, a combat artilleryman in the defeated French armies of 1940, took to the hills above his village. There, as Hypnos, he led a band of guerrillas so bravely that later he received a commendation from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Poet as Hero | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

Other parts of the diary record episodes in the war, seen as if by the brief, brilliant light of a phosphorous flare. A comrade dies before an SS firing squad; the Germans try to drive Hypnos' detachment out of hiding by burning a forest; and, in a two-line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Poet as Hero | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

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