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Selene also appears on horseback as part of the Gigantomachy frieze of the Pergamon Altar. [121] Selene is commonly depicted with a crescent moon, often accompanied by stars; sometimes, instead of a crescent, a lunar disc is used. [122]
Selene is a character and the main protagonist of the Underworld film franchise, in which she is portrayed by Kate Beckinsale.The character is introduced in the first film, Underworld, as an elite vampire assassin known as a "Death Dealer" who hunts down the Lycans for allegedly murdering her family.
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]
Cleopatra Selene and her twin Alexander appear briefly in the television series Rome. Selene, córka Kleopatry by Natalia Rolleczek is a novel about Cleopatra Selene and her brothers from the death of their parents until her marriage. Selene is a lead character in Michael Livingston's 2015 historical fantasy novel The Shards of Heaven. [21] [22]
Underworld tells the story of Selene (Kate Beckinsale) a Death Dealer bent on destroying the lycans who allegedly killed her family. She discovers that the lycans are pursuing a human, Michael Corvin, for experimentation; Selene captures Michael herself to find out what the lycans are up to.
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 ...
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Endymion received scathing criticism after its release, [1] and Keats himself noted its diffuse and unappealing style. Keats did not regret writing it, as he likened the process to leaping into the ocean to become more acquainted with his surroundings; in a poem to J. A. Hessey, he expressed that "I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest."