The drug morphine is named after him.
He is spoken with in Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella.
He is referred to in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590). He sleeps on an ebony bed in a dimly lit cave, surrounded by poppy flowers.
Morpheus is one of the many names of Dream, the principal character in Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman.
Morpheus is featured in episode 3, season 1 of Xena: Warrior Princess, where he is the object of worship of a corrupted dream cult.
Morpheus brings the night sky to the fields of Mt. Olympus in the Pastoral Symphony segment of Disney's Fantasia.
Morpheus is also referred to in "Comatose (In the Arms of Slumber)" from the album Desireless by Eagle-Eye Cherry.
Morpheus makes an appearance in The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan - the fifth book of his Percy Jackson and the Olympians series - as the god of dreams. He puts all of New York City to sleep.
Morpheus is an unseen character in the video game, God of War: Chains of Olympus.
Morpheus is mentioned in the song "The Safest Way Into Tomorrow" by Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Reference is also made to his wings which he is "offering" in the song (to the person being addressed).
In the film The Matrix (1999), Morpheus (played by Laurence Fishburne) is the leader of a team of free humans and enables Neo to wake up from his "dream".
Little Nemo in Slumberland, a comic about a boy's surreal dreams, includes a supporting character named King Morpheus.
Project Morpheus is a NASA project, to develop a lunar lander test-bed, that was named after the god Morpheus.
Morpheus appears in Disney's Hercules, voiced by Jonathan Katz.
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Myths and Mortals (Greek Mythology)
FantasyDo you know your Artemis from your Aphrodite? Can you name the god of the Underworld, the sea, the sun? Which god rules them all, holding a thunderbolt in his hand, or claw, when he transforms into an eagle? Or what monsters lurk in the depths of Ta...
