Selene

Etymology and origins

Names

The name "Selene" is derived from the Greek noun selas (σέλας), meaning "light, brightness, gleam". In the Doric and Aeolic dialects, her name was also spelled Σελάνα (Selána) and Σελάννα (Selánna) respectively.

Selene was also called Mene. The Greek word mene, meant the moon, and the lunar month. The masculine form of mene (men) was also the name of the Phrygian moon-god Men. Mene and Men both derive from Proto-Hellenic *méns ("month"), itself from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (meaning moon, the lunar month), which probably comes from the root *meh₁- ("to measure"), and is cognate with the English words "Moon" and "month". The Greek Stoic philosopher Chrysippus interpreted Selene and Men as, respectively, the female and male aspects of the same god.

Although no clear attestation for Selene herself has been discovered, in Mycenaean Greek the word for month 'men' has been found in Linear B spelled as {{script|Linb|𐀕𐀜}} (me-no, from genitive form μηνός, mēnós).

Just as Helios, from his identification with Apollo, is called Phoebus ("bright"), Selene, from her identification with Artemis, is also called Phoebe (feminine form). Also from Artemis, Selene was sometimes called "Cynthia", meaning "she of Mount Cynthus" (the birthplace of Artemis).[[File:Sarcophagus Selene Endymion Met 47.100.4ab n03.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Detail of a [[sarcophagus]] depicting Endymion and Selene, shown with her characteristic attributes of lunate crown, billowing veil ([[velificatio]]) and heavenly chariot, from 3rd century AD, Roman Empire period.]]

Origin

Selene, along with her brother, her sister and the sky-god Zeus, is one of the few Greek deities of a clear Proto-Indo-European origin, although they were sidelined by later non-PIE newcomers to the pantheon, as remaining on the sidelines became their primary function, to be the minor deities the major ones were juxtaposed to, thus helping keep the Greek religion Greek.

The original PIE moon deity has been reconstructed as *Meh₁not (from which 'Mene', Selene's byname, is derived), and it appears that it was a male god. The Greek offshoot of this deity however is female. The ancient Greek language had three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine and neuter), so when a god or a goddess personified an object or a concept, they inherited the gender of the corresponding noun; selene, the Greek noun for 'Moon', is a feminine one (whereas men is a masculine one), so the deity embodying it is also by necessity female. In PIE mythology, the Moon, which is a male figure, was seen as forming a pair—usually wedlock—with the Sun, which is a female figure, and which in Greek mythology is recognized in the male deity and Selene's brother Helios. It seems however that unlike the Dawn (Eos) and the Sun (Helios), the Moon had very little importance in PIE mythology.

Although attempts have been made to connect Selene to Helen of Troy due to the similarity of their names, in two early dedications to Helen from Laconia her name is spelled with a digamma (), ruling out any possible connection between them. 'Helen' is more likely related to 'Helios' instead, and it seems that the two figures stem from a common Proto-Indo-European ancestor, the Sun Maiden.

Descriptions

Surviving descriptions of Selene's physical appearance and character, apart from those which would apply to the Moon itself, are scant. There is no mention of Selene as a goddess in either the Iliad or the Odyssey of Homer, while her only mention in Hesiod's Theogony is as the daughter of Hyperion and Theia, and sister of Helios and Eos. She was, however, the subject of one of the thirty-three Homeric Hymns, which gives the following description:

... Hail, white-armed goddess, bright Selene, mild, bright-tressed queen!}}

Two other sources also mention her hair. The Homeric Hymn to Helios uses the same epithet εὐπλόκαμος ("bright-tressed"), used in the above Hymn to Selene (elsewhere translated as "rich-", "lovely-", or "well-tressed"), while Epimenides uses the epithet ἠυκόμοιο ("lovely-haired").

In late accounts, Selene (like the Moon itself) is often described as having horns. The Orphic Hymn to Selene addresses her as "O bull-horned Moon", and further describes her as "torch-bearing, ... feminine and masculine, ... lover of horses," and grantor of "fulfillment and favor". Empedocles, Euripides and Nonnus all describe her as γλαυκῶπις (glaukṓpis, "bright-eyed", a common epithet of the goddess Athena) while in a fragment from a poem, possibly written by Pamprepius, she is called κυανῶπις (kyanṓpis, "dark-eyed"). Mesomedes of Crete calls her γλαυκὰ (glaukà, "silvery grey").

Family

Parents

The usual account of Selene's origin is given by Hesiod in his Theogony, where the sun-god Hyperion espoused his sister Theia, who gave birth to "great Helios and clear Selene and Eos who shines upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless Gods who live in the wide heaven". The Homeric Hymn to Helios follows this tradition: "Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaëssa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos and rich-tressed Selene and tireless Helios", with Euryphaëssa ("widely shining") probably being an epithet of Theia. However, the Homeric Hymn to Hermes has Selene as the daughter of Pallas, the son of an otherwise unknown Megamedes. This Pallas is possibly identified with the Pallas, who, according to Hesiod's Theogony, was the son of the Titan Crius, and thus Selene's cousin. Other accounts give still other parents for Selene: Euripides has Selene as the daughter of Helios (rather than sister), while an Aeschylus fragment possibly has Selene as the daughter of Leto, as does a scholium on Euripides's play The Phoenician Women which adds Zeus as the father. Furthermore, in Virgil's Aeneid, when Nisus calls upon Selene/the Moon, he addresses her as "daughter of Latona."

Offspring

According to the Homeric Hymn to Selene, the goddess bore Zeus a daughter, Pandia ("All-brightness"), "exceeding lovely amongst the deathless gods". The 7th century BC Greek poet Alcman makes Ersa ("Dew") the daughter of Selene and Zeus. Selene and Zeus were also said to be the parents of Nemea, the eponymous nymph of Nemea, where Heracles slew the Nemean Lion, and where the Nemean Games were held.

From Pausanias we hear that Selene was supposed to have had fifty daughters, by her lover Endymion, often assumed to represent the fifty lunar months of the Olympiad. Nonnus has Selene and Endymion as the parents of the beautiful Narcissus, although in other accounts, including Ovid's Metamorphoses, Narcissus was the son of Cephissus and Liriope.

Quintus Smyrnaeus makes Selene, by her brother Helios, the mother of the Horae, goddesses and personifications of the four seasons; Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn. Quintus describes them as the four handmaidens of Hera, but in most other accounts their number is three; Eirene ("peace"), Eunomia ("order"), and Dike ("justice"), and their parents are Zeus and Themis instead.

Lastly, Selene was said to be the mother of the legendary Greek poet Musaeus, with, according to Philochorus, the father being the legendary seer Eumolpus.

Mythology

Goddess of the Moon

Like her brother Helios, the Sun god, who drives his sun chariot across the sky each day, Selene is also said to drive a chariot across the heavens. There are no mentions of Selene's chariot in either Homer or Hesiod, but the Homeric Hymn to Selene gives the following description:

The earliest known depiction of Selene driving a chariot adorns the inside of an early 5th century BC red-figure cup attributed to the Brygos Painter, showing Selene plunging her chariot, drawn by two winged horses, into the sea (Berlin Antikensammlung F 2293). The geographer Pausanias, reports seeing a relief of Selene driving a single horse, as it seemed to him, or as some said, a mule, on the pedestal of the Statue of Zeus at Olympia (c. 435 BC). While the sun chariot has four horses, Selene's usually has two, described as "snow-white" by Ovid. In some later accounts the chariot was drawn by oxen or bulls.Keightley, p. 54; Claudian, Rape of Proserpine 3.403; Libanius, Progymnasmata Encomium 8; Nonnus, Dionysiaca , 1.222, 2.406, 7.247, 11.186; 12.5; 48.668. For an image of Selene driving bulls, see British Museum 1956,0517.1 = LIMC 13303 (Selene, Luna 61). Though the moon chariot is often described as being silver, for Pindar it was golden.

In antiquity, the lunar eclipse phenomena were thought to be caused by witches, particularly the ones from Thessaly, who brought the Moon/Selene down with spells and invocations of magic. References to this magical trick, variously referred to as καθαιρεῖν (kathaireĩn), are scattered throughout ancient literature, whereas eclipses of both the Sun and the Moon were called kathaireseis ("casting-downs") by the Greek populace. A famous example of that is Aglaonice of Thessaly, an ancient Greek astronomer, who was regarded as a sorceress for her (self-proclaimed) ability to make the Moon disappear from the sky (καθαιρεῖν τὴν σελήνην: kathaireĩn tén selénen). This claim has been taken–by Plutarch at first, and subsequently by modern astronomers–to mean that she could predict the time and general area where an eclipse of the Moon would occur. Those who brought down the Moon were thought to bring ill fortune upon themselves, as evidenced by the proverb ἐπὶ σαυτῷ τὴν σελήνην καθαιρεῖς ("you are bringing down the Moon on yourself") said for those who caused self-inflicted evils; some witches supposedly avoided this fate by sacrificing their children or their eyeballs.

In popular and common belief, Selene as the Moon came to be associated with physical growth, menstruation and sickness, the latter particularly in the context of demonic possession or even epilepsy. Owing to her role as the moon goddess, she was sometimes called Nyctimedusa (), meaning "queen of the night".

Endymion

Selene is best known for her affair with the beautiful mortal Endymion. The late 7th-century – early 6th-century BC poet Sappho apparently mentioned Selene and Endymion. However, the first account of the story comes from the third-century BC Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes, which tells of Selene's "mad passion" and her visiting the "fair Endymion" in a cave on Mount Latmus:

"Not I alone then stray to the Latmian cave, nor do I alone burn with love for fair Endymion; oft times with thoughts of love have I been driven away by thy crafty spells, in order that in the darkness of night thou mightest work thy sorcery at ease, even the deeds dear to thee. And now thou thyself too hast part in a like mad passion; and some god of affliction has given thee Jason to be thy grievous woe. Well, go on, and steel thy heart, wise though thou be, to take up thy burden of pain, fraught with many sighs."}}

The eternally sleeping Endymion was proverbial, but exactly how this eternal sleep came about and what role, if any, Selene may have had in it is unclear. According to the Catalogue of Women, Endymion was the son of Aethlius (a son of Zeus), and Zeus granted him the right to choose when he would die. A scholiast on Apollonius says that, according to Epimenides, Endymion fell in love with Hera, and Zeus punished him with eternal sleep. However, Apollodorus says that because of Endymion's "surpassing beauty, the Moon fell in love with him, and Zeus allowed him to choose what he would, and he chose to sleep for ever, remaining deathless and ageless". Theocritus portrays Endymion's sleep as enviable because (presumably) of Selene's love for him. Cicero seems to make Selene responsible for Endymion's sleep, so that "she might kiss him while sleeping". The Roman playwright Seneca, has Selene abandoned the night sky for Endymion's sake having entrusted her "shining" moon chariot to her brother Helios to drive. The Greek satirist Lucian's dialogue between Selene and the love goddess Aphrodite has the two goddesses commiserate about their love affairs with Endymion and Adonis, and suggests that Selene has fallen in love with Endymion while watching him sleep each night. In his dialogue between Aphrodite and Eros, Lucian also has Aphrodite admonish her son Eros for bringing Selene "down from the sky". While Quintus Smyrnaeus wrote that, while Endymion slept in his cave beside his cattle:

and slid from heaven to earth; for passionate love drew down the immortal stainless Queen of Night."}}

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 (). In memory of the beautiful Endymion, the fly still grudges all sleepers their rest and annoys them.

Philologist Max Müller's interpretation of solar mythology as it related to Selene and Endymion concluded that the myth was a narrativized version of linguistic terminology. Because the Greek endyein meant "to dive," the name Endymion ("Diver") at first simply described the process of the setting sun "diving" into the sea. In this case, the story of Selene embracing Endymion, or Moon embraces Diver, refers to the sun setting and the moon rising.

Gigantomachy

Gaia, angered about her children the Titans being thrown into Tartarus following their defeat, brought forth the Giants, to attack the gods, in a war that was called the Gigantomachy. When Gaia heard of a prophecy that a mortal would help the gods to defeat the giants, she sought to find a herb that would make them undefeatable. Zeus heard of that, and ordered Selene as well as her siblings Helios (Sun) and Eos (Dawn) not to shine, and harvested all of that plant for himself. Selene's participation in the battle is evidenced by her inclusion in the Gigantomachy frieze of the Pergamon Altar, fighting against Giants next to her siblings Helios and Eos and her mother Theia in the southern frieze. Selene gallops sidesaddle in advance, and wears a woolen undergarment and a mantle. Additionally, on a rein guide for a chariot a goddess thought to be Selene with a crescent and veil over her head is depicted, who stands with Helios on a gate tower and tries to repel the attacks of snake-legged Giants.

Fight with Typhon

According to the late account of Nonnus, when the gigantic monster Typhon laid siege against the heavens, he attacked Selene as well by hurling bulls at her, though she managed to stay in her course, and rushed at her hissing like a viper. Selene fought back the giant, locking horns with Typhon; afterwards, she carried many scars on her orb, reminiscent of their battle.

Ampelus

Ampelus was a very beautiful satyr youth, loved by the god Dionysus. One day, in Nonnus' account, Ampelus rode on a bull, and proceeded to compare himself to Selene, saying that he was her equal, having horns and riding bulls just like her. The goddess took offense, and sent a gadfly to sting Ampelus' bull. The bull panicked, threw Ampelus and gored him to death.

Heracles

When Zeus desired to sleep with the mortal queen Alcmene and sire Heracles, he made the night last three days, and ordered Selene via Hermes to dawdle in the sky during that time.

Selene also played a small role in the first of Heracles' twelve labours; whereas for Hesiod, the Nemean Lion was born to Orthrus and the Chimera (or perhaps Echidna) and raised by Hera, other accounts have Selene involved in some way in its birth or rearing. Aelian states: "They say that the Lion of Nemea fell from the moon", and quotes Epimenides as saying:

Anaxagoras also reports that the Nemean lion was said to have fallen from the Moon. Pseudo-Plutarch's On Rivers has Hera collaborating with Selene, "employing magical incantations" to create the Nemean Lion from a chest filled with foam. Hyginus says that Selene had "nourished" the lion in a "two-mouthed cave".

Pan

According to Virgil, Selene also had a tryst with the god Pan, who seduced her with a "snowy bribe of wool". Scholia on Virgil add the story, ascribed to Nicander, that as part of the seduction, Pan wrapped himself in a sheepskin.

Other accounts

Diodorus Siculus recorded an unorthodox version of the myth, in which Basileia, who had succeeded her father Uranus to his royal throne, married her brother Hyperion, and had two children, a son Helios and a daughter Selene, "admired for both their beauty and their chastity". Because Basileia's other brothers envied these offspring, and feared that Hyperion would try to seize power for himself, they conspired against him. They put Hyperion to the sword, and drowned Helios in the river Eridanus. Selene herself, upon discovering this, took her own life. After these deaths, her brother appeared in a dream to their grieving mother and assured her that he and his sister would now transform into divine natures; and:

Plutarch recorded a fable-like story in which Selene asked her mother to weave her a garment to fit her measure, and her mother replied that she was unable to do so, as she kept changing shape and size, sometimes full, then crescent-shaped and others yet half her size.

In Lucian's **, Selene complains to the titular Menippus of all the outrageous claims philosophers are making about her, such as wondering why she is ever waxing or gibbous, whether she is populated or not, and stating that she is getting her stolen light from the Sun, causing strife and ill feelings between her and her brother. She asks Menippus to report her grievances to Zeus, with the request that Zeus wipes all these natural philosophers from the face of the earth. Zeus agrees, urged by Selene's complaints and having long intended to deal with the philosophers himself.

Claudian wrote that in her infancy, when her horns had not yet grown, Selene (along with Helios – their sister Eos is not mentioned with them) was nursed by her aunt, the water goddess Tethys.

According to pseudo-Plutarch, Lilaeus was an Indian shepherd who only worshipped Selene among the gods and performed her rituals and mysteries at night. The other gods, angered, sent him two lions to tear him apart. Selene then turned Lilaeus into a mountain, Mt. Lilaeon.

Ovid mentions how in the myth of Phaethon, Helios' son who drove his father's chariot for a day, when Phaethon lost control of the chariot and burned the earth, Selene in the sky looked down to see in amazement her brother's horses running wild lower than normal.

Iconography

In antiquity, artistic representations of Selene/Luna included sculptural reliefs, vase paintings, coins, and gems. In red-figure pottery before the early 5th century BC, she is depicted only as a bust, or in profile against a lunar disk. In later art, like other celestial divinities such as Helios, Eos, and Nyx (Night), Selene rides across the heavens. She is usually portrayed either driving a chariot (see above) or riding sideways on horseback (sometimes riding an ox, a mule or a ram).

Selene was often paired with her brother Helios. Selene (probably) and Helios adorned the east pediment of the Parthenon, where the two, each driving a four-horsed chariot, framed a scene depicting the birth of Athena, with Helios and his chariot rising from the ocean on the left, and Selene and her chariot descending into the sea on the right. Selene and Helios also appear on the North Metopes of the Parthenon, with Selene this time entering the sea on horseback. From Pausanias, we learn that Selene and Helios also framed the birth of Aphrodite on the base of the Statue of Zeus at Olympia. There are indications of a similar framing by Selene and Helios of the birth of Pandora on the base of the Athena Parthenos. Pausanias also reports seeing stone images of Helios, and Selene, in the market-place at Elea, with rays projecting from the head of Helios, and horns from the head of Selene. Selene also appears on horseback as part of the Gigantomachy frieze of the Pergamon Altar.

Selene is commonly depicted with a crescent moon, often accompanied by stars; sometimes, instead of a crescent, a lunar disc is used. Often a crescent moon rests on her brow, or the cusps of a crescent moon protrude, horn-like, from her head, or from behind her head or shoulders. Selene's head is sometimes surrounded by a nimbus, and from the Hellenistic period onwards, she is sometimes pictured with a torch.

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. As frequently depicted on Roman sarcophagi, Selene, holding a billowing veil forming a crescent over her head, descends from her chariot to join her lover, who slumbers at her feet.

Cult

Selene's presence in ancient Greek worship is very limited, even in comparison to her brother. Her presence in cult was linked to her connection to more major, important divinities such as Artemis and Hecate, and she is hardly divorced from her identifications when it comes to worship; in later times, she was adopted into pre-existing cults that had not originally included her, along with several other figures.

Moon figures are found on Cretan rings and gems (perhaps indicating a Minoan moon cult), but apart from the role played by the moon itself in magic, folklore, and poetry, and despite the later worship of the Phrygian moon-god Men, there was relatively little worship of Selene. An oracular sanctuary existed near Thalamai in Laconia. Described by Pausanias, it contained statues of Pasiphaë and Helios. Here Pasiphaë is used as an epithet of Selene, instead of referring to the daughter of Helios and wife of Minos. Pausanias also described seeing two stone images in the market-place of Elis, one of the sun and the other of the moon, from the heads of which projected the rays of the sun and the horns of the crescent moon. Selene (along with Helios, Nyx and others) received an altar at the sanctuary of Demeter at Pergamon, possibly in connection with the Orphic mysteries.

Originally, Pandia may have been an epithet of Selene, but by at least the time of the late Hymn to Selene, Pandia had become a daughter of Zeus and Selene. Pandia (or Pandia Selene) may have personified the full moon, and an Athenian festival, called the Pandia, usually considered to be a festival for Zeus, was perhaps celebrated on the full moon and may have been associated with Selene. At Athens, wineless offerings (nephalia) were made to Selene, along with other celestial gods, Selene's siblings Helios and Eos, and Aphrodite Ourania; in Attica, it seems that Selene was identified with Aphrodite.

Selene was sometimes associated with childbirth, for it was believed that during the full moon women had the easiest labours; this helped in her identification with the goddess Artemis, as well as other goddesses connected to women's labours. The idea that Selene would also give easy labours to women paved way for identification with Hera and the Roman Juno and Lucina, three other childbirth goddesses; Plutarch calls Selene "Hera in material form." Roman philosopher Cicero connected Selene's Roman counterpart Luna's name to childbirth goddess Lucina's, both deriving from "light" (thus bringing the unborn child into the light). Nonnus also identified Selene with Eileithyia.

Selene played an important role in love magic. In Theocritus' second Idyll, a young girl invokes Selene in a love-spell. The idyll opens with the girl ordering her maid to bring potions and magical utensils, followed by an invocation to Selene and Hecate, and finally the rather lengthy spell itself; once she finishes her spell, the girl recounts to Selene of how she met and was betrayed by her lover, and calls upon the goddess to witness and help her, hence the love tail is woven into the love spell. And, according to a scholium on Theocritus, Pindar wrote that lovesick women would pray to Selene for help, as Euripides apparently had Phaedra, Selene's great-niece, do in his lost play Hippolytus Veiled. Plutarch wrote that Selene was called upon in love affairs because she, the Moon, constantly yearns for the Sun, and compared her in that regard to Isis.

Her and her brother's worship is also attested in Gytheum, a town in Laconia near Sparta, via an inscription (C.I.G. 1392). In the city of Epidaurus, in Argolis, Selene had an altar dedicated to her. Records show that a type of cake called βοῦς (boûs, "ox") decorated with horns to represent the full moon or an ox was offered to her and other divinities like Hecate, Artemis and Apollo. In addition, a type of flat, round moon-shaped cake was called 'selene' ("moon") and was offered "to the goddess." The ancient Greeks also called Monday "day of the Moon" (ἡμέρα Σελήνης) after her.

Orphic literature

According to a certain Epigenes, the three Moirai, or Fates, were regarded in the Orphic tradition as representing the three divisions of Selene, "the thirtieth and the fifteenth and the first" (i.e. the crescent moon, full moon, and dark moon, as delinted by the divisions of the calendar month).

Namesakes

Selene is the Greek proper name for the Moon, and 580 Selene, a minor planet in the asteroid belt, is also named after this goddess. Scientific study of the Moon, particularly lunar geology, is sometimes referred to as selenology, and its practitioners selenologists, to distinguish from Earth-based study.

The chemical element Selenium was named after Selene by Jöns Jacob Berzelius, because of the element's similarity to the element tellurium, named for the Earth (Tellus).

The second Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft following was named SELENE (Selenological and Engineering Explorer) after Selene, and was also known as Kaguya in Japan. HMS Selene (P254), a 1944 British submarine and Ghia Selene, a concept car from the Ghia design studio from 1959, also bore her name.

Gallery

File:8560 - Milano - San Marco - Tomba Alessandro e Lancellotto Pusterla - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto - 14-Apr-2007.jpg|Selene and Endymion relief, Alessandro and Lancellotto Pusterla's gravestone, 16th century. File:-0175 Endymion empfängt Selene Altes Museum anagoria.JPG|Selene and Endymion standing next to each other, sarcophagus fragment, end of 2nd century AD. File:Albert Aublet - Selene.jpg|Selene, 1880 painting by Albert Aublet. File:Fresco in the Fourth Pompeian Style depicting Selene and Endymion, from Herculaneum, Empire of colour. From Pompeii to Southern Gaul, Musée Saint-Raymond Toulouse (16092515370).jpg|Selene with sleeping Endymion, fresco in the fourth Pompeian style. File:Sarcophagus Selene Endymion Met 47.100.4ab n04.jpg|Selene detail from a sarcophagus, imperial period. File:Séléné.jpg|Selene, engraving by François Chauveau. File:Cabeza de caballo de la cuadriga de Selene, frontón este (6648083105).jpg|Head of one of Selene's horses. File:Selene (the goddess of the moon), The Silahtarağa statues group representing the Battle of the Gods and Giants (Gigantomachy), Istanbul Archeology Museum (46100832541).jpg|Statue of Selene from the Silahtarağa group representing the Gigantomachy, Istanbul Archeology Museum. File:67.2.775 Lampe - Séléné (Musée de Die).jpg|Oil lamp fragment with the head of Selene, early classical period, Musée de Die. File:Wiesbaden Kurhaus Thiersch-Saal Helios Selene.JPG|Selene and Endymion, in the mural above the stage of the Friedrich von Thiersch Saal in the Wiesbaden Kurhaus. File:Cástulo, mosaico (15319110013).jpg|Selene leaving her chariot, Roman mosaic, Andalusia. File:Giuseppe Antonio Felice Orelli 001.jpg|Selene and Endymion, fresco on ceiling by Giuseppe Antonio Orelli, circa 1730–1770, Palazzo Riva. File:The Four Seasons (Horae) and Selene.jpg|Selene and the Horae, by Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher. File:Statue of a female deity (Academy of Athens) on 22 May 2022.jpg|Selene or Nyx in the Academy of Athens, Greece. File:Selene and Endymion.jpg|Selene and Endymion, by Albert Aublet. File:Distelbarth, Friedrich, Artemis-Selene-Relief, Bildfeld 5.jpg|Selene with her chariot in the relief of Rosenstein Palace, Germany. File:Figure of Selene from, "Flora, seu florum...", Ferrari 1646 Wellcome L0007609.jpg|Selene in a flying chariot drawn by two white horses from "Flora, seu florum...", Ferrari 1646.

Genealogy

Notes

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13. "The Linear B word me-no".
14. Phoebe]] was also the name of Selene's aunt, the Titan mother of [[Leto]] and [[Asteria]], and grandmother of Apollo, Artemis, and Hecate.
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26. Keightley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=YhsYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA56 p. 56]; [[Plutarch]], ''[[Moralia]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/plutarch-face_which_appears_orb_moon/1957/pb_LCL406.103.xml 929 C–D] (''Concerning the Face Which Appears in the Orb of the Moon'' 16) [= [[Empedocles]] [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/empedocles-doctrine/2016/pb_LCL528.481.xml?rskey=gPvh94&result=33 fr. D132 Laks-Most] = fr. B42 Diels-Kranz], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/plutarch-face_which_appears_orb_moon/1957/pb_LCL406.137.xml 934 D] (''Concerning the Face Which Appears in the Orb of the Moon'' 21); [[Euripides]] [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.573.xml?rskey=ib6InZ&result=1 fr. 1009] [= Scholia on [[Apollonius of Rhodes]]' ''[[Argonautica]]'' 1.1280–1281]; [[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/details/dionysiaca01nonnuoft/page/172/mode/2up?view=theater 5.70].
27. ''Select Papyri'' 3.140 Page, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/select_papyri_poetry_elegiac_hexameter_poems/1941/pb_LCL360.567.xml pp. 566, 567].
28. [[Mesomedes]], ''Hymn to the Sun'' 15 (Psaroudakes, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ULNSDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA122 p. 122]).
29. Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#0.2 Preface 12].
30. Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA46 p. 46]; ''[[Homeric Hymns|Homeric Hymn to Helios]]'' (31) [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.01.0138%3ahymn%3d31 4–7]. Assuming that their order of mention is meant to be their order of birth, Hesiod and [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]] (''[[Fabulae]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#0.2 Preface 12]) make Helios the oldest of the siblings, with Eos the youngest, while the ''Hymn'' swaps the order of Eos and Helios, and Apollodorus ([https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.%201.2.2 1.2.2]) has Selene as the youngest, with Eos as the oldest.
31. Morford, [https://archive.org/details/classicalmytholo0000morf_8ed/page/61/mode/2up?view=theater p. 61]; West 2003, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/homeric_hymns_31_helios/2003/pb_LCL496.215.xml p. 215 n. 61].
32. Homeric Hymn to Hermes]]'' (4), [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0013.tlg004.perseus-eng1:94-133 99–100].
33. Vergados, [https://books.google.com/books?id=qzF9UQt8NDUC&pg=PA313 p. 313]; Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA46 p. 46]; [[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0020.tlg001.perseus-eng1:371-403 375–377]. As Vergados points out, there is no indication of this genealogy elsewhere in Greek texts, however for Ovid, [[Aurora (mythology)|Aurora]] (Dawn), the Roman counterpart of Selene's sister Eos, was the daughter of Pallas, see ''[[Fasti]]'' [https://archive.org/details/ovidsfasti00oviduoft/page/216/mode/2up?view=theater 4.373–374], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-metamorphoses/1916/pb_LCL043.33.xml 9.421], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-metamorphoses/1916/pb_LCL043.379.xml 15.191], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-metamorphoses/1916/pb_LCL043.415.xml 15.700].
34. Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA46 p. 46]; Keightley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=YhsYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA54 p. 54 with n. 9]; [[Euripides]], ''[[The Phoenician Women]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg015.perseus-eng1:145-192 175–176] (with scholia); so also [[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/details/dionysiaca01nonnuoft/page/180/mode/2up 5.162–166], [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca03nonnuoft#page/310/mode/2up 44.191]; Scholia on [[Aratus]] 445. Keightley quotes the Euripides scholiast as saying that [[Aeschylus]] (and others) said that Selene is Helios' daughter "because she partakes of the solar light, and changes her form according to the solar positions".
35. Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA46 p. 46], Gantz, pp. 34–35; [[Aeschylus]] [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/aeschylus-attributed_fragments/2009/pb_LCL505.173.xml fr. 170 Sommerstein] [= fr. 170 Radt, Nauck].
36. [[William Smith (lexicographer)
37. [[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/245#9.367 9.404].
38. Fairbanks, [https://archive.org/stream/MythologyOfGreeceAndRomespecialReferenceToItsInfluenceOnLiterature/bulgaria_fairbanks-GRE1907#page/n175/mode/2up p. 162].
39. Pandia]].
40. Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA46 p. 46]; ní Mheallaigh, [https://books.google.com/books?id=h6ECEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA26 p. 26]; Keightley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=YhsYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA55 p. 55]; [[Alcman]] [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/alcman-fragments/1988/pb_LCL143.435.xml fr. 57 Campbell] [= [[Plutarch]], ''[[Moralia]]'', [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/plutarch-moralia_table_talk/1961/pb_LCL424.279.xml 659 B] = fr. 48 Bergk = fr. 43 Diehl] (see also [[Plutarch]], ''[[Moralia]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/plutarch-moralia_causes_natural_phenomena/1965/pb_LCL426.201.xml 918 A], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/plutarch-face_which_appears_orb_moon/1957/pb_LCL406.175.xml 940 A]). According to Hard, "this is really no more than an allegorical fancy referring to the heavy dew-fall associated with clear moonlit nights".
41. Cook, [https://archive.org/stream/zeusstudyinancie01cookuoft#page/456/mode/2up p. 456]; Smith, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=selene-bio-1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104 s.v. Selene]; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.15.3 2.15.3] has [[Asopus]] as the father of Nemea, with no mention of a mother.
42. Apollodorus]]), [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.1.4 2.1.4], and the [[Thespiades]], the fifty daughters of [[Thespius]], each of whom bore a son to [[Heracles]] ([[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)
43. Verhelst, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZbhRDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA253 p. 253 with n. 59]; [[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [http://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca03nonnuoft#page/466/mode/2up 48.581–583] (however compare with ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/details/dionysiaca01nonnuoft/page/342/mode/2up 10.214–216], which suggests that Selene and Helios are the parents of Narcissus); [[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-metamorphoses/1916/pb_LCL042.149.xml 3.341–346].
44. The Fall of Troy]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/falloftroy00quin#page/442/mode/2up 10.336–343]. Compare with [[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/396/mode/2up 12.1–2], which has the Horae as the daughters of Helios, without mentioning a mother.
45. Burkert 1972, [https://books.google.com/books?id=0qqp4Vk1zG0C&pg=PA346 p. 346 n. 48]; [[Plato]], ''[[Republic (Plato)|Republic]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plat.+Rep.+2.364e 2.364e]; [[Philodemus]], ''De Pietate'' (''On Piety'') Herculaneum Papyrus 243 fr. 6 (Obbink 2011, [https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=D4tDMNaqKfIC&oi=fnd&pg=PA353 p. 353]).
46. Frogs]]'' 1033].
47. The Suppliants]]'', [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg008.perseus-eng1:990-1008 990–994]; [[Theocritus]], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/theocritus-poems_i-xxx/2015/pb_LCL028.57.xml 2.163–166]; [[Ovid]], ''[[Fasti (poem). Valerius Flaccus]], ''Argonautica'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/valerius_flaccus-argonautica/1934/pb_LCL286.275.xml 5.410–415]; [[Statius]], [[Thebaid (Latin poem). ''Thebaid'']] [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.67.xml 1.336–341].
48. Keightley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=YhsYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA54 p. 54].
49. ''[[Homeric Hymns
50. LIMC]]'' [http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-7563328f80339-3 31573], which identifies this figure as [[Nyx]] (Night).
51. Keightley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=YhsYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA54 p. 54]; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+5.11.8 5.11.8].
52. Morford, [https://archive.org/details/classicalmytholo0000morf_8ed/page/63/mode/2up?view=theater p. 63]; ''[[Oxford Classical Dictionary]]'', s.v. Selene; Kerényi, [https://archive.org/details/godsofgreeks00kerrich/page/196/mode/2up?view=theater p. 196]. For an example of Selene driving the less usual four horses see Morford, [https://archive.org/details/classicalmytholo0000morf_8ed/page/353/mode/2up?view=theater p. 353].
53. Ovid, ''Fasti'' [https://archive.org/details/ovidsfasti00oviduoft/page/216/mode/2up?view=theater 4.374].
54. Grimal, s.v. Selene; [[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca03nonnuoft#page/310/mode/2up 44.192].
55. [[Pindar]], ''Olympian'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0162%3Abook%3DO.%3Apoem%3D3 3.19–20]. For the use of "golden" in reference to the moon, see: Allen, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0029%3Atext%3Dcomm%3Apoem%3D32 [6] "χρυσέου"].
56. ní Mheallaigh, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=h6ECEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA38 38]
57. Hill, D. E. "THE THESSALIAN TRICK." Rheinisches Museum Für Philologie, vol. 116, no. 3/4, 1973, pp. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/41244743 221–38]. [[JSTOR]]. Accessed 18 Jul. 2022.
58. Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey. (1986). "Women in Science". [[The MIT Press]].
59. Schmitz, Leonhard. (1867). "[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]".
60. [[Scholia]] ad [[Zenobius]] ''Epitome'' 401
61. Gordon, Richard L.. (2006). "Selene". Brill Reference Online.
62. "νυκτιμέδουσα".
63. Amores]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-amores/1914/pb_LCL041.371.xm 11.13.43–44], ''[[Ars Amatoria]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-art_love/1929/pb_LCL232.123.xml 3.83], ''Heroides'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-heroides/1914/pb_LCL041.187.xml 15.89–90], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-heroides/1914/pb_LCL041.249.xml 18.59–74]; [[Seneca the Younger. Seneca]], ''[[Medea (Seneca). Medea]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/seneca_younger-medea/2018/pb_LCL062.323.xml 93–101], [[Phaedra (Seneca). ''Phaedra'']] [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/seneca_younger-phaedra/2018/pb_LCL062.445.xml 309–316], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/seneca_younger-phaedra/2018/pb_LCL062.453.xml 406–422], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/seneca_younger-phaedra/2018/pb_LCL062.481.xml 785–794]; [[Gaius Valerius Flaccus. Valerius Flaccus]], ''Argonautica'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/valerius_flaccus-argonautica/1934/pb_LCL286.415.xml 8.28–30]. [[Gaius Julius Hyginus. Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#271 271], includes "Endymion, son of Aetolus, whom Luna loved" under the heading "Youths Who Were Most Handsome".
64. Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA133 p. 133]; Gantz, p. 35; [[Sappho]] [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/sappho-fragments/1982/pb_LCL142.187.xml fr. 199 Campbell] [= Scholia on [[Apollonius of Rhodes]]' ''[[Argonautica]]'' 4.57].
65. Gantz, p. 35.
66. [[Apollonius of Rhodes]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/argonautica00apoluoft#page/298/mode/2up 4.54–65].
67. Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA133 pp. 133–134]; Frazer's note to [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.7.5 1.7.5]; e.g. [[Plato]], ''[[Phaedo]]'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plat.+Phaedo+72c 72c]; [[Aristotle]], ''[[Nicomachean Ethics]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0054%3Abook%3D10%3Achapter%3D8%3Asection%3D7 10.8.7].
68. Gantz, p. 35; Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA134 p. 134]; Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA411 p. 411]; [[Hesiod]] [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-catalogue_women/2018/pb_LCL503.59.xml fr. 10.58–62 Most] [= fr. 10a.58–62 Merkelbach-West].
69. link. (2024-12-02 = Epimenides [https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC&pg=PA98 fr. 12 Fowler] = ''[[FGrHist]]'' 457 F10 = 3B14 [[Hermann Alexander Diels)
70. [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)
71. Gantz, p. 35; [[Theocritus]], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/theocritus-poems_i-xxx/2015/pb_LCL028.67.xml 3.49–50]. See also [[Theocritus]], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/theocritus-poems_i-xxx/2015/pb_LCL028.277.xml 20.37–39].
72. Amores]]'', [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-amores/1914/pb_LCL041.371.xm 11.13.43–44]: "Look, how many hours of slumber has Luna bestowed upon the youth she loves! [Endymion]"; Gantz, p. 35, discussing Selene's role, says that "no source claims that the sleep was her idea, and likely enough (given its role in some quarters as a punishment, and his love for Hera), she was not always a part of the story." Gantz also notes that "Vases and artifacts from the second half of the fifth century on may possibly show Selene leaving an awake Endymion."
73. [[Seneca the Younger. Seneca]], ''[[Phaedra (Seneca). Phaedra]]'', [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/seneca_younger-phaedra/2018/pb_LCL062.445.xml 309–316].
74. Gantz, p. 35; [[Lucian]], ''[[Dialogues of the Gods]]'' [https://archive.org/details/lucianvolviiloeb00luci/page/n343/mode/2up 19 (11)].
75. [[Lucian]], ''[[Dialogues of the Gods]]'' [https://archive.org/details/lucianvolviiloeb00luci/page/n345/mode/2up 20 (12)].
76. [[Quintus Smyrnaeus]], ''[[Posthomerica. The Fall of Troy]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/falloftroy00quin#page/428/mode/2up 10.125–131].
77. [[Lucian]], ''The Fly'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/lucian-fly/1913/pb_LCL014.91.xml?result=28&rskey=1dOrZ1 10].
78. Powell, pp. 670–671.
79. Museum of Classical Archaeology Databases [https://museum.classics.cam.ac.uk/collections/casts/great-altar-zeus-pergamon-selene 385a].
80. [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)
81. Picón and Hemingway, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Vr3WCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA47 47]
82. Honan, p. [https://archive.org/details/guidetopergamonm00perg/page/20/mode/2up?q=&view=theater 20]
83. Now housed in the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]] and can be seen [https://collections.mfa.org/objects/153313/rein-guide-for-a-chariot-with-a-scene-of-the-battle-of-the-g?ctx=9f6c1772-3544-4c76-85a7-593a85983117&idx=82 here].
84. [[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/18/mode/2up 1.213–223].
85. [[Ovid]], ''[[Fasti]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/ovidsfasti00oviduoft#page/150/mode/2up 3.409–410].
86. [[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/370/mode/2up 11.167–223].
87. Stuttard, [https://archive.org/details/greekmythologytr0000stut/page/114/mode/2up?view=theater p. 114]; [[Lucian]], ''[[Dialogues of the Gods]]'' [https://archive.org/details/lucianvolviiloeb00luci/page/308/mode/2up 14 (10)].
88. Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA63 p. 63]; [[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-theogony/2018/pb_LCL057.29.xml 326–329 (Most)].
89. Cook, [https://archive.org/stream/zeusstudyinancie01cookuoft#page/456/mode/2up pp. 456–457]; Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA256 p. 256].
90. Cook, [https://archive.org/stream/zeusstudyinancie01cookuoft#page/456/mode/2up p. 456]; Gantz, p. 25; Burkert 1972, [https://books.google.com/books?id=0qqp4Vk1zG0C&pg=PA346 p. 346 n. 47]; West 1983, pp. 47–48.
91. [[Claudius Aelianus. Hellenic Library] {{Webarchive. link. (2024-12-02 . Gantz, p. 25, remarks that this refers to Selene "probably in her role as the moon rather than the goddess".)
92. Burkert 1972, [https://books.google.com/books?id=0qqp4Vk1zG0C&pg=PA346 p. 346 with n. 48]; [[Anaxagoras]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=PA6HMrSrjfkC&pg=PA111 fr. A77 Curd] [= Scholia on [[Apollonius of Rhodes]]'s ''[[Argonautica]]'' 1.498]. See also [[Plutarch]], ''[[Moralia]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/plutarch-moralia_table_talk/1961/pb_LCL424.399.xml?rskey=UQkRts&result=2&mainRsKey=m1fL2Z 677 A] [= [[Euphorion of Chalcis|Euphorion]] [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euphorion_chalcis-poetic_fragments/2010/pb_LCL508.337.xml fr. 107 Lightfoot] = fr. 84 Powell = fr. 47 Meineke] (Nemean Lion called "Menê’s fierce-eyed son"). For other accounts see Cook, [https://archive.org/stream/zeusstudyinancie01cookuoft#page/457/mode/2up p. 457 notes 2 and 3].
93. [[Pseudo-Plutarch]], ''On Rivers'' [http://www.roman-emperors.org/Pseudo-P%20Revised.pdf#page=22 18.4]; Cook, [https://archive.org/stream/zeusstudyinancie01cookuoft#page/457/mode/2up p. 457 n. 3].
94. [[Gaius Julius Hyginus. Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#30 30]; Cook, [https://archive.org/stream/zeusstudyinancie01cookuoft#page/456/mode/2up p. 456].
95. [[Virgil]], ''[[Georgics]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0058%3Abook%3D3%3Acard%3D384 3.391–393].
96. Saturnalia]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/macrobius-saturnalia/2011/pb_LCL511.473.xml 5.22.9–10]. Hard describes this "tale" as "interesting but poorly attested", and says that the "rusticity of the tale suggests that it may have originated as a local legend in Arcadia."
97. Caldwell, p. 40, on lines 207–210; [[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/3D*.html#57 3.57].
98. [[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/3D*.html#57.5 3.57.5].
99. [[Plutarch]], ''[[Moralia]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/plutarch-moralia_dinner_seven_wise_men/1928/pb_LCL222.409.xml 157 C].
100. [[Lucian]], ''Icaromenippus'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/lucian-icaromenippus_sky_man/1915/pb_LCL054.301.xml 20–21].
101. [[Lucian]], ''Icaromenippus'' [http://lucianofsamosata.info/wiki/doku.php?id=home:texts_and_library:dialogues:icaromenippus#section29 29-33]
102. [[Claudian]], ''Rape of Persephone'' [https://archive.org/details/claudia02clau/page/322/mode/2up?view=theater 2.44–54].
103. [[Pseudo-Plutarch]], ''On Rivers'' 25.4; Grimal s.v. [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofclas00grim/page/259/mode/2up?view=theater Lilaeus]. Pseudo-Plutarch attributes this story to Clitophon's ''Indica'', perhaps recording an Indian tale using names of Greek gods.
104. [[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-metamorphoses/1916/pb_LCL042.75.xml 2.208–209]
105. Roman and Roman, [https://books.google.com/books?id=tOgWfjNIxoMC&pg=PT446 p. 434]; Gury, pp. 706–715. For an example of a coin see [[British Museum]], [https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_R-7248 R.7248]; for an example of a gem see the British Museum [https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/search?museum_number=1923,0401.199 1923,0401.199].
106. Cohen, [https://books.google.com/books?id=SCA2AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA157 p. 157]; Savignoni, [https://books.google.com/books?id=q0EaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA270 p. 270 with nn. 4, 5].
107. Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA46 p. 46]; Savignoni, [https://books.google.com/books?id=q0EaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA271 p. 271]; Walters, [https://archive.org/details/historyofancient02walt/page/79 p. 79].
108. Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA46 p. 46]; ''[[Oxford Classical Dictionary]]'', s.v. Selene; Murray 1903, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.69739/page/n80 p. 47]. Hansen, [https://books.google.com/books?id=1Z-LIKN0Ap0C&pg=PA221 p. 221] shows two illustrations one captioned "Selene riding a mule", the other "Selene riding a ram". Note however that both ''[[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae|LIMC]]'' [http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-745f9274ebc89-c 13265 (Selene, Luna 35)] (image [https://www.iconiclimc.ch/limc/imageview.php?image=efefd04538da448cae2eacf8bf4d3a3d&total=1&term=%22Luna+35%22 13603X001.jpg]) and Beazley Archive [http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/F7D43FBE-EB66-43E2-BAAC-35D5FF34B8FA 211530] describe the vase (Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco 3996) from which Hansen's first illustration is drawn, as depicting Selene riding on a horse. Cf. [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+5.11.8 5.11.8].
109. Hurwit 2017, pp. 527–532; Shear, pp. 112–114; Palagia 2005, [https://books.google.com/books?id=gA81kINAI9cC&pg=236 pp. 236–237]; Palagia 1998, [https://books.google.com/books?id=GFNuxcVKLIkC&pg=PA22 pp. 22–23]; Murray 1892, [https://archive.org/details/handbookofgreeka00murruoft/page/271 pp. 271–272]. The goddess paired with Helios here is most often identified as Selene (e.g. Shear, Palagia, and Murray, with no mention of any alternative), however Hurwit 2017, which concludes that the goddess is "probably" Selene, also notes that there is a "strong argument" for the goddess instead being Nyx (Night), while Robertson 1981, [https://books.google.com/books?id=BoUsvD1_VNQC&pg=PA96 p. 96] also includes Eos as a possibility. "Selene's" torso, from the Parthenon pediment is in Athens at the [[Acropolis Museum]], [https://theacropolismuseum.gr/en/parthenon-east-pediment-selene inventory number 881], while the head of one of her pediment horses is in London at the [[British Museum]], [https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1816-0610-98 museum number 1816,0610.98].
110. Hurwit 1999, [https://books.google.com/books?id=0pQ4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA170 p. 170]; ''[[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae|LIMC]]'' [http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-74113a1bb3b81-d 7734 (Selene, Luna 38)], image [https://www.iconiclimc.ch/limc/imageview.php?image=5101582982f046bdb340a15449313d6e&total=9&term=%22Luna+38%22 7919X001.jpg].
111. Robertson 1981, [https://books.google.com/books?id=BoUsvD1_VNQC&pg=PA96 p. 96], [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+5.11.8 5.11.8].
112. Osborne, [https://books.google.com/books?id=fnJvha8jzzQC&pg=PA87 p. 87]. For another example of Helios and Selene framing a scene, in this case the [[Judgement of Paris]], see Robertson 1992, [https://books.google.com/books?id=BmmW1h7Qk7MC&pg=PA255 p. 255].
113. [[Pausanias (geographer). Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:6.24.6 6.24.6].
114. Thomas, [https://books.google.com/books?id=pD_z8thJyukC&pg=PA17 p. 17]; Mitchell, [https://books.google.com/books?id=72EJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA92 p. 92]; Museum of Classical Archaeology Databases [https://museum.classics.cam.ac.uk/collections/casts/great-altar-zeus-pergamon-selene 385a].
115. Savignoni, [https://books.google.com/books?id=q0EaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA270 pp. 270–271]; e.g. crescent moon and stars: Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco 3996 (''[[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae|LIMC]]'' [http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-745f9274ebc89-c 13265 (Selene, Luna 35)], image [https://www.iconiclimc.ch/limc/imageview.php?image=efefd04538da448cae2eacf8bf4d3a3d&total=1&term=%22Luna+35%22 13603X001.jpg]), lunar disk: Berlin, Antikensammlung F 2293 (''[[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae|LIMC]]'' [http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-74476cdb1abcc-3 11564 (Selene, Luna 47)], image [https://www.iconiclimc.ch/limc/imageview.php?image=ec5c193a36ad4901b93316d668406b4f&total=6&term=%22Luna+47%22 11842X101.jpg]).
116. ''LIMC'']] [http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-745ed7cd0964a-a 13213 (Selene, Luna 21)]; [[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. ''LIMC'']] [http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-745e62aefddaa-9 13181 (Selene, Luna 4)]; [[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. ''LIMC'']] [http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-74a570795e03c-5 18206 (Mithras 113)]; [[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. ''LIMC'']] [http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-745ec1d7673ac-8 13207 (Selene, Luna 15)]; [[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. ''LIMC'']] [http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-745f8ecbfb6c4-2 13264 (Selene, Luna 34)]; [[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. ''LIMC'']] [http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-7403b77c6ef4c-7 6780 (Selene, Luna 2)]; [[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. ''LIMC'']] [http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-745e74fbafa83-d 13186 (Selene, Luna 7)]; [[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. ''LIMC'']] [http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-745e7c4d9060d-7 13188 (Selene, Luna 9)]; [[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. ''LIMC'']] [http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-73cf08b08e293-0 3076 (Selene, Luna 10)]; [[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. ''LIMC'']] [http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-745ed07b28ac0-f 13211 (Selene, Luna 19)]. For the close association between the crescent moon and horns see Cashford 2003b.
117. Parisinou, [https://books.google.com/books?id=PX1q70E9ABIC&pg=PA34 p. 34].
118. Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA134 p. 134]; Sorabella, p. 70; Morford, [https://archive.org/details/classicalmytholo0000morf_8ed/page/65/mode/2up?view=theater p. 65].
119. Examples, among many others, include sarcophagi in the [[Capitoline Museum]] in Rome (c. 135 AD), two in the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in New York (c. 160 AD and c. 220 AD), and one in [[Palazzo Doria Pamphilj]] Rome (c. 310 AD), for images see Sorabella, figs. 1–7, 12.
120. "Site officiel du musée du Louvre".
121. Athanassakis & Wolkow 2013, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=TTo3r8IHy0wC&pg=PA89 89]
122. Athanassakis and Wolkow, [https://books.google.com/books?id=TTo3r8IHy0wC&pg=PA89 p. 89]; ''[[Oxford Classical Dictionary]]'', s.v. Selene; Burkert 1991, p. 176.
123. [[Plutarch]], ''Agis'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plut.+Agis+9&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0005 9]; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+3.26.1 3.26.1].
124. Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+6.24.6 6.24.6].
125. Ridgeway, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6Jj6rcIup4C&pg=PA55 p. 55].
126. Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA46 p. 46]; Cashford 2003a, [https://archive.org/details/homerichymns0000unse_y4i4/page/174/mode/2up?view=theater p. 174]; Willetts, p. 178; Cook, [https://archive.org/stream/zeusstudyinancie01cookuoft#page/732/mode/2up p. 732]; Roscher, [https://archive.org/stream/berseleneundver00poligoog#page/n125/mode/2up p. 100].
127. Cashford 2003a, [https://archive.org/details/homerichymns0000unse_y4i4/page/174/mode/2up?view=theater p. 174]; [[Károly Kerényi|Kerényi]], [https://archive.org/details/godsofgreeks00kerrich/page/197/mode/2up?view=theater p. 197]; Cox, pp. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.24849/page/n157/mode/2up 138], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.24849/page/n159/mode/2up 140].
128. Parker, [https://books.google.com/books?id=F_ATDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA477 pp. 477–478].
129. Robertson 1996, [https://books.google.com/books?id=AMTNIZ_LQjoC&pg=PA75 p. 75 n. 109]; Willetts, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=wz0qAAAAYAAJ&q=Pandia+Selene 178–179]; Cook, [https://archive.org/stream/zeusstudyinancie01cookuoft#page/732/mode/2up. 732]; Harpers, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0062%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DS%3Aentry+group%3D8%3Aentry%3Dselene-harpers s.v. Selene]; Smith, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text;jsessionid=BDFA02D9C2623BF90A2B1EC34D743408?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0063%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DP%3Aentry+group%3D1%3Aentry%3Dpandia-cn s.v. Pandia].
130. Meagher, [https://books.google.com/books?id=vBDfKCyC2LMC&pg=PA142 p. 142 n. 137]; Scholia on [[Sophocles]] ''[[Oedipus at Colonus]]'' 91 (Xenis, [https://books.google.com/books?id=3HBLDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA70 pp. 70–71]).
131. Müller, [https://archive.org/details/fragmentahistori01mueluoft/page/530/mode/2up?view=theater p. 531]
132. (2017). "Charles Masson and the Buddhist Sites of Afghanistan". British Museum Research Publications.
133. [[Chrysippus]] [https://archive.org/details/stoicorumveterum02arniuoft/page/212/mode/2up?view=theater fr. 748].
134. [[Plutarch]], ''[[Moralia. Quaestiones Romanae]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg084a.perseus-eng1:77 77].
135. [[Cicero]], ''[[De Natura Deorum]]'' [https://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=137#2.68 2.68].
136. [[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/details/dionysiaca03nonnuoft/page/102/mode/2up?view=theater 38.150].
137. Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA46 p. 46].
138. Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA46 p. 46]; Athanassakis and Wolkow, [https://books.google.com/books?id=TTo3r8IHy0wC&pg=PA90 p. 90]; [[Theocritus]], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/theocritus-poems_i-xxx/2015/pb_LCL028.39.xml 2.10–11, 69–166].
139. ní Mheallaigh, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=NdX7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA33 33-34]
140. Faraone, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Aq-Yg6B51NsC&pg=PA139 p. 139]; Collard and Cropp, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL504.469.xml p. 469]; [[Scholia]] on [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZgUd8TCc6UYC&pg=PA38 Theocritus 2.10].
141. [[Plutarch]], ''On Isis and Osiris'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plut.+De+Iside+52&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0239 52]
142. ''The Classical Review'', volume VII, [[University of Illinois]] Library, 1893, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=LQgOi5LWx5QC&pg=PA77 77], vol. VII
143. Vermaseren, [https://books.google.com/books?id=peh5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA149 p. 149].
144. [[Julius Pollux]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=m2U-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA23 6.76]
145. Allaire Brumfield, ''Cakes in the Liknon: Votives from the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore on Acrocorinth'', Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens Vol. 66, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1997), [https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/uploads/media/hesperia/148477.pdf pp. 157; 171], [[The American School of Classical Studies at Athens]].
146. [http://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/sigma/204 "Selenai."] ''[[Suda]] On Line''. Trans. Rocco Marseglia on 9 November 2012.
147. Olderr, [https://books.google.com/books?id=y5gZDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA98 p. 98].
148. This Epigenes has been tentatively identified with [[Epigenes, son of Antiphon
149. Jones, pp. 50–51, citing [[Clement of Alexandria]], ''[[Stromata]]'': Abel, frg. 253.
150. "Planetary Names".
151. Schmadel, Lutz D.. (2003). "Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (580) Selene". [[Springer Berlin Heidelberg]].
152. (1932). "The discovery of the elements. VI. Tellurium and selenium". Journal of Chemical Education.
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155. [[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hes.+Th.+132 132–138], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hes.+Th.+337 337–411], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hes.+Th.+453 453–520], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hes.+Th.+901 901–906, 915–920]; Caldwell, pp. 8–11, tables 11–14.
156. Although usually the daughter of Hyperion and Theia, as in [[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hes.+Th.+371 371–374], in the ''[[Homeric Hymns|Homeric Hymn to Hermes]]'' (4), [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=HH+4+99&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0138 99–100], Selene is instead made the daughter of Pallas the son of Megamedes.
157. According to [[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hes.+Th.+507 507–511], Clymene, one of the [[Oceanid]]s, the daughters of [[Oceanus]] and [[Tethys (mythology)|Tethys]], at [[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hes.+Th.+351 351], was the mother by Iapetus of Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus, while according to [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D2%3Asection%3D3 1.2.3], another Oceanid, Asia was their mother by Iapetus.
158. According to [[Plato]], ''[[Critias (dialogue). Critias]]'', [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg032.perseus-eng1:113d 113d–114a], Atlas was the son of [[Poseidon]] and the mortal [[Cleito]].
159. In [[Aeschylus]], ''[[Prometheus Bound]]'' 18, 211, 873 (Sommerstein, pp. [http://www.loebclassics.com/view/aeschylus-prometheus_bound/2009/pb_LCL145.445.xml 444–445 n. 2], [http://www.loebclassics.com/view/aeschylus-prometheus_bound/2009/pb_LCL145.467.xml 446–447 n. 24], [http://www.loebclassics.com/view/aeschylus-prometheus_bound/2009/pb_LCL145.539.xml 538–539 n. 113]) Prometheus is made to be the son of [[Themis]].