Dream and Mythology
The Sandman Special #1 implies that Morpheus is one and the same as the Greek deity of that name (in DC comics continuity, another version of this god, clearly not Dream, appears in George Pérez's Wonder Woman #11 (December 1987) — what relation this figure, an old man dressed in purple vaguely resembling Agatha Harkness, has to this aspect of Dream is unclear). Morpheus is the father of Greek hero Orpheus by the muse Calliope, and once-patron of Aristeas of Marmora, taking the role given in legend to Apollo, with whom he is often confused.
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