![]() ![]() Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) : Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.ĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES PARENTAGE OF SELENE Selene and sleeping Endymion, Greco-Roman mosaic, Bardo National Museum MENE (Mênê), a female divinity presiding over the months. At Rome Luna had a temple on the Aventine. In works of art, however, the two divinities are usually distinguished the face of Selene being more full and round, her figure less tall, and always clothed in a long robe her veil forms an arch above her head, and above it there is the crescent. In later times Selene was identified with Artemis, and the worship of the two became amalgamated (Callim. § 3) and at Elis there was a statue of her with two horns (Paus. She was represented on the pedestal of the throne of Zeus at Olympia, riding on a horse or a mule (Paus. She rode, like her brother Helios, across the heavens in a chariot drawn by two white horses, cows, or mules (Ov. Selene is described as a very beautiful goddess, with long wings and a golden diadem (Hom. Pan also is said to have had connexion with her in the shape of a white ram (Virg. § 2) by Zeus she became the mother of Pandeia, Ersa, and Nemea (Hom. By Endymion, whom she loved, and whom she sent to sleep in order to kiss him, she became the mother of fifty daughters (Apollod. She is also called Phoebe, as the sister of Phoebus, the god of the sun. 55) but others speak of her as a daughter of Hyperion by Euryphaessa (Hom. ![]() She is called a daughter of Hyperion and Theia, and accordingly a sister of Helios and Eos (Hes. SELE′NE (Selênê), also called Mene, or Latin Luna, was the goddess of the moon, or the moon personified into a divine being. NARKISSOS (by Endymion) (Nonnus Dionysiaca 48.582) MOUSAIOS (Ion of Chiod Frag 30a, Plato Republic 364d, Philodemus On Piety) NEMEAN LION (Aelian On Animals 12.7, Hyginus Fabulae 30, Seneca Hercules Furens 83) THE MENAI x50 (by Endymion) (Pausanias 5.1.5) THE HORAI x4 (by Helios) (Quintus Smyrnaeus 10.334) NEMEA (by Zeus) (Scholiast on Pindar's Nemean Ode) ERSA (by Zeus) (Greek Lyric II Alcman Frag 57) PANDEIA (by Zeus) (Homeric Hymn 32 to Selene, Hyginus Preface) HELIOS (Euripides Phoenicians 175, Nonnus Dionysiaca 44.198) OFFSPRING PALLAS (Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes 100, Ovid Fasti 4.373) HYPERION & EURYPHAESSA (Homeric Hymn 31 to Helios) HYPERION & THEIA (Hesiod Theogony 371, Apollodorus 1.8, Hyginus Preface) Other Greek moon goddesses included Pasiphae, the Leukippides (Leucippes), Eileithyia, Hekate (Hecate), Artemis, Bendis, and Hera (who sometimes doubled for Selene in the Endymion myth). His heavenly bride consorted with him there in the night.Ī number of other goddesses were also associated with the moon, however, only Selene was represented by the old Greek poets represented as the moon incarnate. The beautiful boy was granted eternal youth and immortality by Zeus and placed in a state of eternal slumber in a cave near the peak of Lydian Mount Latmos (Latmus). Selene's great love was the shepherd prince Endymion. She was sometimes said to drive a team of oxen and her lunar crescent was likened to a pair of bull's horns. Her lunar sphere or crescent was either a crown set upon her head or the fold of a raised, shining cloak. She was depicted as a woman riding sidesaddle on a horse or driving a chariot drawn by a pair of winged steeds. SELENE was the Titan goddess of the moon. ![]() Moon ( selênê) Selene goddess of the moon, Athenian red-figure kylix C5th B.C., Antikensammlung Berlin ![]()
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