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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; raped by Selene as he slept. Ganymede; raped by Zeus; Hermaphroditos; raped by (and later merged with) the nymph Salmacis. Hylas; raped by naiads. Lyrcus, son of Phoroneus, raped by Hemithea, by means of alcohol. Odysseus; in some versions, raped by Calypso on the island of Ogygia in his seven-year stay. Silenus; raped by the cyclops ...
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 ...
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).
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
The story of Judith and Holofernes is taken from the Book of Judith, a deuterocanonical book of the Bible that is included in the Septuagint, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible, but excluded from the Hebrew canon and assigned by Protestants to the Biblical apocrypha. [6]
Tithonus has been taken by the allegorist to mean ‘a grant of a stretching-out’ (from teinō and ōnė), a reference to the stretching-out of his life, at Eos’s plea; but it is likely, rather, to have been a masculine form of Eos’s own name, Titonë – from titō, ‘day [2] and onë, ‘queen’ – and to have meant ‘partner of the Queen of Day’.