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Selene Preciado was born in 1982 in Tijuana, Mexico. [2] She currently lives in Long Beach, California. [3]Preciado focuses on Latin American art. [4] [5] Preciado and Richard Montoya (the son of José Montoya) co-curated “José Montoya’s Abundant Harvest," a survey of over 2000 of Montoya's works on paper, [6] at the Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles.
In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Selene (/ s ɪ ˈ l iː n iː /; Ancient Greek: Σελήνη pronounced [selɛ̌ːnɛː] seh-LEH-neh, meaning "Moon") [2] is the goddess and personification of the Moon. Also known as Mene, she is traditionally the daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia, and sister of the sun god Helios and the dawn ...
Atargatis (known as Derceto by the Greeks [1]) was the chief goddess of northern Syria in Classical antiquity. [2] [3] Primarily she was a fertility goddess, but, as the baalat ("mistress") of her city and people she was also responsible for their protection and well-being.
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 ...
Articles relating to the goddess Selene and her depictions. She is the Greek Moon goddess. She is the daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia, and sister of the sun god Helios and the dawn goddess Eos. In late accounts, Selene (like the moon itself) is often described as having horns.
William Smith writes of Mene as "a goddess presiding over the months". [5] Apostolos Athanassakis and Benjamin Wolkow speculate that Selene's name, which is derived from the word σέλας ( selas, "light") and thus means "luminous one", might have originally developed as a euphemism, before becoming the Moon and its goddess's proper name.
Angelina Jolie is continuing to show off her style at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.. After touching down in Italy earlier this week, the actress, 49, made another stylish appearance at the ...
Luna and Selene of Roman and Greek mythology, respectively, are shown driving two-horse chariots often in art. [18] De Grummond has also suggested that since Śuri is a solar god and his consort is Catha, it would make logical sense for his partner to be lunar as opposed to another solar divinity.