![]() THE HORAI x4 (by Helios) (Quintus Smyrnaeus 10.334) NEMEA (by Zeus) (Scholiast on Pindar's Nemean Ode) ERSA (by Zeus) (Greek Lyric II Alcman Frag 57) PANDEIA (by Zeus) (Homeric Hymn 32 to Selene, Hyginus Preface) HELIOS (Euripides Phoenicians 175, Nonnus Dionysiaca 44.198) OFFSPRING PALLAS (Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes 100, Ovid Fasti 4.373) HYPERION & EURYPHAESSA (Homeric Hymn 31 to Helios) HYPERION & THEIA (Hesiod Theogony 371, Apollodorus 1.8, Hyginus Preface) Other Greek moon goddesses included Pasiphae, the Leukippides (Leucippes), Eileithyia, Hekate (Hecate), Artemis, Bendis, and Hera (who sometimes doubled for Selene in the Endymion myth). His heavenly bride consorted with him there in the night.Ī number of other goddesses were also associated with the moon, however, only Selene was represented by the old Greek poets represented as the moon incarnate. The beautiful boy was granted eternal youth and immortality by Zeus and placed in a state of eternal slumber in a cave near the peak of Lydian Mount Latmos (Latmus). ![]() Selene's great love was the shepherd prince Endymion. She was sometimes said to drive a team of oxen and her lunar crescent was likened to a pair of bull's horns. Her lunar sphere or crescent was either a crown set upon her head or the fold of a raised, shining cloak. She was depicted as a woman riding sidesaddle on a horse or driving a chariot drawn by a pair of winged steeds. SELENE was the Titan goddess of the moon. Moon ( selênê) Selene goddess of the moon, Athenian red-figure kylix C5th B.C., Antikensammlung Berlin
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