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Selene and Endymion, by Sebastiano Ricci (1713), Chiswick House, England. Apollonius of Rhodes [5] (3rd century BC) is one of the many poets [6] who tell how Selene, the Titan goddess of the Moon, [b] loved the mortal Endymion. She found Endymion so beautiful that she asked his cousin, Zeus, to
Lucian also records an otherwise unattested myth where a pretty young girl called Muia becomes Selene's rival for Endymion's affections; the chatty maiden would endlessly talk to him while he slept, causing him to wake up. This irritated Endymion, and enraged Selene, who transforms the girl into a fly (Ancient Greek: μυῖα, romanized: muía ...
Endymion is written in rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter (also known as heroic couplets). Keats based the poem on the Greek myth of Endymion, the shepherd beloved of the moon goddess Selene. The poem elaborates on the original story and renames Selene "Cynthia" (an alternative name for Artemis).
Selene Myia was, according to satirical writer Lucian of Samosata, a young chatty girl who fell in love with Endymion and kept waking him up with her endless chatter, wishing to sway his affections toward her. This annoyed Endymion, and enraged Selene, the moon goddess and Endymion's lover, who then transformed Myia into a fly, which to this ...
An ancient Greek proverb connected to this story was μυίης θάρσος (literally 'the fly's boldness'), said for those who were of excessive boldness. [1]Similarly to the myth of the boy-turned-rooster Alectryon (also surviving in the works of Lucian) Myia's story is an aetiological myth which nonetheless does not link its protagonist to a specific Greek place or lineage, with a ...
Roman sarcophagus showing Selene approaching Endymion. Ca. 200–200 AD. San Paolo fuori le mura, Rome. While Selene and Endymion can still be imagined as a husband and wife, it was possible for Selene to be imagined as a representation of a deceased wife, and Endymion as a living husband.
Diana and Endymion is a painting by Francesco Solimena undertaken from 1705 until 1710. The painting depicts the Roman goddess Diana, one of the twelve Gods and Goddesses of Olympus, falling in love with Endymion, a symbol of timeless beauty. [1] The story tells of Diana's love for the beautiful youth Endymion.
In some versions, Narcissus was the son of the river god Cephissus and nymph Liriope, [2] while Nonnus instead has him as the son of the lunar goddess Selene and her mortal lover Endymion. [ 3 ] Mythology