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Selene's head is sometimes surrounded by a nimbus, and from the Hellenistic period onwards, she is sometimes pictured with a torch. [124] In later second and third century AD Roman funerary art, the love of Selene for Endymion and his eternal sleep was a popular subject for artists. [125]
Whatever the case, Zeus granted Selene's wish and put Endymion into an eternal sleep. Every night, Selene visited him where he slept, and by him had fifty daughters [8] who are equated by some scholars (such as James George Frazer or H. J. Rose) with the fifty months of the Olympiad. [9] [need quotation to verify]. [10] [11]
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 ...
This is a list of famous pairs in mythology: Lovers. Abhimanyu and Uttara Acis and ... Selene and Endymion ; Shiva and Parvati/Sati ...
From the Homeric Hymn to Selene, we have: "Once the Son of Cronos [Zeus] was joined with her [Selene] in love; and she conceived and bare a daughter Pandia, exceeding lovely amongst the deathless gods." [3] An Athenian tradition perhaps made Pandia the wife of Antiochus, the eponymous hero of Antiochis, one of the ten Athenian tribes . [4]
Mythology portal; Ancient Greece portal; Aurora; Cumaean Sibyl, another mortal who was granted an extended lifetime but not eternal youth; Tithonus (The X-Files), an episode of the X-Files that is a modern retelling of the story. Selemnus, a mortal man who was abandoned by his immortal lover after growing old; Myia, another mythological insect.
Selene (Kate Beckinsale) is a vampire whose work entails hunting and killing werewolves, known as Lycans. She falls in love with a human man (Scott Speedman), who is subsequently bitten by a ...
According to Nonnus, Ampelos was gored to death by a wild bull after he mocked the goddess Selene, a scene described as follows: "[Ampelos, love of Dionysos, rode upon the back of a wild bull:] He shouted boldly to the fullfaced Moon (Mene)—'Give me best, Selene, horned driver of cattle! Now I am both—I have horns and I ride a bull!'