Selene

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Selene
Personification of the Moon
Detail of Selene from a Roman sarcophagus
Detail of Selene from a Roman sarcophagus
AbodeSky
PlanetMoon[1]
SymbolCrescent, chariot, torch, billowing cloak, bull
DayMonday (hēmérā Selḗnēs)
Personal information
ParentsHyperion and Theia, or Pallas, the son of Megamedes[2] or Helios.[3]
SiblingsHelios and Eos
ConsortEndymion
ChildrenFifty daughters to Endymion; Pandia and Ersa to Zeus; four Horae to Helios; Musaeus
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Roman equivalentLuna
Norse equivalentMáni
Hinduism equivalentChandra, Soma
Japanese equivalentTsukuyomi-no-Mikoto
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In Greek mythology, Selene (/sɪˈliːniː/; Ancient Greek: Σελήνη, [selɛ̌ːnɛː], "Moon") is the goddess of the Moon. She is the daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia, and sister of the sun god Helios and the dawn goddess Eos. She drives her moon chariot across the heavens. Several lovers are attributed to her in various myths, including Zeus, Pan, and the mortal Endymion. In classical times, Selene was often identified with Artemis, much as her brother, Helios, was identified with Apollo.[4] Selene and Artemis were also associated with Hecate and all three were regarded as moon and lunar goddesses, but only Selene was regarded as the personification of the Moon itself. Her Roman equivalent is Luna.[5]

Etymology[]

Detail of a sarcophagus depicting Endymion and Selene, shown with her characteristic attributes of lunate crown and billowing veil (velificatio)[6]

The etymology of Selene is uncertain, but if the name is of Greek origin, it is likely connected to the word selas (σέλας), meaning "light".[7]

Just as Helios, from his identification with Apollo, is called Phoebus ("bright"), Selene, from her identification with Artemis, is also commonly referred to by the epithet Phoebe (feminine form).[8] The original Phoebe of Greek mythology is Selene's aunt, the Titaness mother of Leto and Asteria, and grandmother of Apollo, Artemis, and Hecate. Also from Artemis, Selene was sometimes called "Cynthia".[9]

Selene was also called Mene (Ancient Greek: Μήνη).[10] The word men (feminine mene), meant the moon, and the lunar month. It was also the name of the Phrygian moon-god Men.[11]

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.[12]

Origin[]

The usual account of Selene's origin is given by Hesiod. In the Theogony, 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".[13] 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."[14] Here Euryphaëssa ("wide-shining") is probably an epithet of Theia.[15]

Other accounts[16] make Selene the daughter of Pallas, the son of Megamedes (possibly identified with Titan Pallas)[17] or of Helios.[18]

Mythology[]

Endymion[]

Selene and Endymion, by Sebastiano Ricci (1713), Chiswick House, England

Selene is best known for her affair with the beautiful mortal Endymion.[19]

The late 7th-century – early 6th-century BC poet Sappho apparently mentioned Selene and Endymion.[20]

However, the first direct account 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:[21]

And the Titanian goddess, the moon, rising from a far land, beheld her [Medea] as she fled distraught, and fiercely exulted over her, and thus spake to her own heart: '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.

Quintus Smyrnaeus' The Fall of Troy tells that, while Endymion slept in his cave beside his cattle, "Selene watched him from on high, and slid from heaven to earth; for passionate love drew down the immortal stainless Queen of Night."[22] The eternally sleeping Endymion was proverbial,[23] 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.[24]

A scholiast on Apollonius says that, according to Epimenides, Endymion, having fallen in love with Hera, asked Zeus to grant him eternal sleep.[25]

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".[26]

Cicero seems to make Selene responsible for Endymion's sleep, so that "she might kiss him while sleeping".[27]

From Pausanias we hear that Selene was supposed to have had by Endymion fifty daughters, who possibly represented the fifty lunar months of the Olympiad.[28] Nonnus has Selene and Endymion as the parents of the beautiful Narcissus, but in other accounts, including Ovid's Metamorphoses, Narcissus was the son of Cephissus and Liriope.[29]

The satirical author Lucian of Samosata records an otherwise unattested myth where a fair nymph called Myia becomes Selene's rival for Endymion's affections; the chatty nymph would endlessly talk to him while he slept, causing him to wake up. This irritated Endymion, and enraged Selene, who then proceeded to transform the girl into a fly (Ancient Greek: μυῖα, romanized: myía). In memory of the beautiful Endymion, the fly still grudges all sleepers their rest and annoys them.[30]

Gigantomachy[]

Selene riding horseback, detail of the Gigantomachy frieze, Pergamon Altar, Pergamon museum, Berlin

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.[31]

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.[32]

Ampelus[]

Ampelus was a very beautiful satyr youth, loved by the god Dionysus.[33] 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.[34]

The Nemean Lion[]

Whereas for Hesiod, the Nemean Lion was born to Echidna and raised by Hera,[35] other accounts have Selene involved in some way in its birth or rearing.[36] Aelian states: "They say that the Lion of Nemea fell from the moon", and quotes Epimenides as saying:

"For I am sprung from fair-tressed Selene the Moon, who in a fearful shudder shook off the savage lion in Nemea, and brought him forth at the bidding of Queen Hera."[37]

Anaxagoras also reports that the Nemean lion was said to have fallen from the moon.[38]

Pseudo-Plutarch's On Rivers has Hera collaborating with Selene, "employing magical incantations" to create the Nemean Lion from a chest filled with foam.[39] Hyginus says that Selene had "nourished" the lion in a "two-mouthed cave".[40]

Pan[]

According to Virgil, Selene also had a tryst with the god Pan, who seduced her with a "snowy bribe of wool".[41] Scholia on Virgil add the story, ascribed to Nicander, that as part of the seduction, Pan wrapped himself in a sheepskin.[42]

Other lovers and children[]

Quintus Smyrnaeus makes Selene, with her brother Helios, the parents of the Horae, goddesses and personifications of the four seasons; Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn.[43] Smyrnaeus 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.

According to the Homeric Hymn to Selene, the goddess bore Zeus a daughter, Pandia ("all-brightness"),[44] "exceeding lovely amongst the deathless gods".[45] The 7th century BC Greek poet Alcman makes Ersa ("dew") the daughter of Selene and Zeus.[46] 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.[47]

Lastly, Selene was said to be the mother (by the legendary seer Eumolpus?) of the legendary Greek poet Musaeus.[48]

Moon chariot[]

Statue of Selene, shown wearing the crescent on her forehead and holding a torch in her right hand, while her veil billows over her head

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.[49] The Hymn to Selene, provides a description:

The air, unlit before, glows with the light of her golden crown, and her rays beam clear, whensoever bright Selene having bathed her lovely body in the waters of Ocean, and donned her far-gleaming raiment, and yoked her strong-necked, shining team, drives on her long-maned horses at full speed, at eventime in the mid-month: then her great orbit is full and then her beams shine brightest as she increases. So she is a sure token and a sign to mortal men.[50]

The earliest known depiction of Selene driving a chariot is inside 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.[51] Though the moon chariot is often described as being silver,[52] for Pindar it was golden.[53] While the sun chariot has four horses, Selene's usually has two,[54] described as "snow-white" by Ovid.[55] In some cases the chariot was drawn by oxen or bulls.[56]

Descriptions[]

Surviving descriptions of Selene's physical appearance and character, apart from those which would apply to the moon itself, are scant. Three early sources mention Selene's hair. Both the Hymn to Helios and the Hymn to Selene use the word εὐπλόκαμος, variously translated as "rich", "bright", or "beautiful haired", and Epimenides uses the epithet "lovely-haired".[57] The Hymn to Selene describes the goddess as very beautiful, with long wings and a golden diadem, calling her "white-armed" and "benevolent".[58] Aeschylus calls Selene "the eye of night".[59] The Orphic Hymns give Selene horns and a torch, describing her as "all-seeing", "all-wise", a lover of horses and of vigilance, and a "foe of strife" who "giv'st to Nature's works their destin'd end".[60]

Iconography[]

Endymion as hunter (with dog), sitting on rocks in a landscape, holding 2 spears, looking at Selene who descends to him. Antique fresco from Pompeii.

In antiquity, artistic representations of Selene included sculptural reliefs, vase paintings, coins, and gems.[61] In red-figure pottery before the early 5th century BC, she is depicted only as a bust, or in profile against a lunar disk.[62] 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 or riding sidesaddle on horseback[63] (sometimes riding an ox, a mule or a ram).[64]

Paired with her brother Helios, Selene adorned the east pediment of the Parthenon, where the two framed a scene depicting the birth of Athena, with Helios driving his chariot rising from the ocean on the left, and Selene and her chariot descending into the sea on the right.[65] From Pausanias, we learn that Selene and Helios also framed the birth of Aphrodite on the base of the Statue of Zeus at Olympia.[66] There are indications of a similar framing by Selene and Helios of the birth of Pandora on the base of the Athena Parthenos.[67] Selene also appears on horseback as part of the Gigantomachy frieze of the Pergamon Altar.[68]

Selene is commonly depicted with a crescent moon, often accompanied by stars; sometimes, instead of a crescent, a lunar disc is used.[69] 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.[70] Selene's head is sometimes surrounded by a nimbus, and from the Hellenistic period onwards, she is sometimes pictured with a torch.[71]

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.[72] 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.[73]

In post-Renaissance art, Selene is generally depicted as a beautiful woman with a pale face and long, lustrous black hair, driving a silver chariot pulled either by a yoke of oxen or a pair of horses.[citation needed]

Cult[]

Selene from an altar piece, flanked by either the Dioscuri, or by Phosphorus and Hesperus.[74]

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.[75] 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.[76] 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.[77]

Originally Pandia may have been an epithet of Selene,[78] but by at least the time of the late Homeric Hymn, Pandia had become a daughter of Zeus and Selene. Pandia (or Pandia Selene) may have personified the full moon,[79] and an Athenian festival, called the Pandia, usually considered to be a festival for Zeus,[80] was perhaps celebrated on the full moon and may have been associated with Selene.[81]

Orphic literature[]

According to a certain Epigenes,[82] 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).[83]

See also[]

  • Selenium
  • List of lunar deities
  • Diana (mythology)
  • Star and crescent

Notes[]

  1. ^ Evans, James (1998). The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy. Oxford University Press. pp. 296–7. ISBN 978-0-19-509539-5. Retrieved 2008-02-04.
  2. ^ Vergados, p. 313; Hymn to Hermes (4), 99–100.
  3. ^ Euripides, The Phoenician Women 175 ff.; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 44.191.
  4. ^ Hard, p. 46; The Oxford Classical Dictionary, s.v. SELENE, pp. 970–971; Morford, pp. 64, 219–220; Smith, "Selene".
  5. ^ Smith, "Selene"; Kerenyi, pp. 196–197; The Oxford Classical Dictionary, s.v. SELENE, pp. 970–971; Hard, p. 46; Morford, pp. 64, 219–221.
  6. ^ Stefania Sorrenti, "Les représentations figurées de Jupiter Dolichénien à Rome," in La terra sigillata tardo-italica decorata del Museo nazionale romano, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1999), p. 370.
  7. ^ Kerenyi, pp. 196–197.
  8. ^ Morford, p. 64; Smith, "Selene"
  9. ^ Pannen, p. 96. For example see Ovid, Heroides 15.89 ff..
  10. ^ Smith, "Selene".
  11. ^ Kerenyi, pp. 196–197; The Oxford Classical Dictionary, s.v. SELENE, pp. 970–971.
  12. ^ Powell, Barry B. (1995). Classical Myth. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice Hall. pp. 677–678.
  13. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 371–374. See also Apollodorus 1.2.2, Hyginus, Fabulae Preface.
  14. ^ Hymn to Helios (31) 4–7.
  15. ^ Morford, p. 61; West 2003, note 61 p. 215.
  16. ^ Hard, p. 46.
  17. ^ Vergados, p. 313; Hymn to Hermes (4), 99–100.
  18. ^ Euripides, The Phoenician Women 175 ff.; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 44.191.
  19. ^ Catullus, Carmina 66.5; Hyginus, Fabulae 271; Strabo, 14.1.8; Propertius, Elegies 2.15; Ovid, Heroides 15.89 ff., 18.59 ff.; Seneca, Phaedra 309 ff., 422 ff., 786 ff.; Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8.28 ff.; Lucian Aphrodite and Selene; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 2.325 ff., 4.195 ff., 4.213 ff., 5.516 ff., 7.237 ff., 13.553 ff., 41.379 ff., 42.266 ff., 48.582 ff., 48.667 ff..
  20. ^ This is according to a scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes 4.57, see Campbell, p. 197; Weigal, p. 281
  21. ^ Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.54 ff..
  22. ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy 10.125 ff., pp. 428–429.
  23. ^ Frazer's note to Apollodorus, 1.7.5; Plato, Phaedo, 72c; Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 10.8.7; Theocritus, 3.50; Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 1.38.92, p.50.
  24. ^ Catalogue of Women, fragment 10, lines 58–62, Most, p. 57.
  25. ^ Gantz, p. 35. The same scholiast gives another story involving Endymion's love for Hera, this time attributed to the Great Ehoiai, saying that "Endymion was carried up by Zeus to heaven, but that he was seized by desire for Hera and was deceived by the phantom of a cloud, and that because of this desire he was thrown out and went down to Hades", see Most, fragment 198, p. 275.
  26. ^ Apollodorus, 1.7.5.
  27. ^ Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 1.38.92, p.50. See also Ovid, Amores, 1.13: "See how the moon does her Endymion keep / In night conceal'd, and drown'd in dewy sleep." Gantz, p. 34, 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."
  28. ^ Pausanias, 5.1.4; Mayerson p. 167; Davidson, pp. 204–205; Seyffert, "Endymion" p. 213; Cashford, p. 137. There are other accounts of fifty daughters in Greek mythology, the Nereids were fifty sea nymphs born to Nereus and Doris (Hesiod, Theogony 240–264), and Thespius had fifty daughters, each of whom bore a son to Heracles (Apollodorus, 2.4.10, 2.7.8).
  29. ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.581 ff.; Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.342.
  30. ^ Lucian, Praising a Fly 10
  31. ^ Apollodorus, 1.6.1
  32. ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.213–223.
  33. ^ Ovid, Fasti 3.409–414.
  34. ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 11.167–223.
  35. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 327
  36. ^ Cook, pp. 456–457; Hard, p. 256.
  37. ^ Aelian, On Animals 12.7; Gantz, p. 25; Cook, p. 456; Burkert 1972, p. 346 n. 48; West 1983, pp. 47–48.
  38. ^ Anaxagoras, fr. A77 Curd [= Scholium on Apollonius of Rhodes 1.498]. See also Seneca, Hercules Furens 83 ff.. For other accounts see Cook, p. 457 notes 2 and 3.
  39. ^ Pseudo-Plutarch, On Rivers 18.4; Cook, p. 457 n. 3.
  40. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 30; Cook, p. 456.
  41. ^ Virgil, Georgics 3.391–93.
  42. ^ Hard, p. 46; Gantz, p. 36; Kerenyi, p. 175, 196; Grimal, "Selene", p. 415.
  43. ^ The Oxford Classical Dictionary, s.v. SELENE, pp. 970–971; Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy 10.336–340, pp. 442–443. Compare with Nonnus, Dionysiaca 12.1–2, which has the Horae as the daughters of Helios, without mentioning a mother.
  44. ^ Fairbanks, p. 162.
  45. ^ Hard, p. 46; Hymn to Selene (32) 15–16; so also Hyginus, Fabulae Preface. Allen, [15] "ΠανδείηΝ", says that Pandia, "elsewhere unknown as a daughter of Selene ... seems to be merely an abstraction of the moon herself". Cook p. 732 says that it seems probable that, instead of being her daughter, "Pandia was originally an epithet of Selene". Either Selene or her daughter may have been connected to the Athenian festival Pandia.
  46. ^ Alcman fr. 57 Campbell [= Plutarch, Moralia, Table-Talk 659b = fr. 48 Bergk = fr. 43 Diehl] (see also Plutarch, Moralia 918a, 940a). According to Hard, p. 46, "this is really no more than an allegorical fancy referring to the heavy dew-fall associated with clear moonlit nights".
  47. ^ Cook, p. 456; Smith, "Selene"; Pausanias, 2.15.3 has Asopus as the father of Nemea.
  48. ^ Plato, Republic 2.364e; Obbink, p. 353; Burkert 1972, p. 346 n. 48; see Smith, s.v. Musaeus (literary 1), for Eumolpus as father.
  49. ^ Pindar, Olympian 3.19–20; Euripides, The Suppliant Women, 990–991; Theocritus, Idyll 2.163 ff.; Ovid, Fasti 4.373–374, 3.109–110, Metamorphoses 2. 208 ff; Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 5.408 ff.; Statius, Thebaid 1. 336 ff.
  50. ^ Hymn to Selene (32) 5–14.
  51. ^ Cohen, pp. 156–157, 177–179. For Selene driving another pair of winged horses see Zschietzschmann, p. XII, p. 23.
  52. ^ Grimal, "Selene" p. 415; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 44.191.
  53. ^ Pindar, Olympian 3.19–20. For the use of "golden" in reference to the moon, see: Allen, [6] "χρυσέου".
  54. ^ Kerenyi, p. 196; Morford, p. 63. For an example of Selene driving the less usual four horses see Morford, p. 353.
  55. ^ Ovid, Fasti 4.373–374.
  56. ^ The Oxford Classical Dictionary, s.v. SELENE, pp. 970–971; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 7.244, 11.185 ff., 1.214 ff., 2.405 ff.. For an image of Selene driving cattle, see LIMC Selene, Luna 61.
  57. ^ Evelyn-White, Hymn to Helios (31) 6, Hymn to Selene, (32) 18; Rudin, pp. 94–95; Morford, p. 64; Aelian, On Animals, 12.7.
  58. ^ "Winged": Hymn to Selene, (32) 1 (a winged Selene seems to be unique to this Hymn, see Allen, [1] "τανυσίπτερον"); "White-armed": Hymn to Selene, (32) 17; "Benevolent": Allen, [18] "Πρόφρον".
  59. ^ Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 390.
  60. ^ Orphic Hymns 8.
  61. ^ For an example of Selene depicted on a coin see British Museum, R.7248; for an example of a gem see the British Museum 1923,0401.199.
  62. ^ Cohen, p. 157.
  63. ^ Hard, p. 46; Savignoni, p. 271; Walters, p. 79; Murray (1892) p. 272.
  64. ^ Hard, p. 46; The Oxford Classical Dictionary, s.v. SELENE, pp. 970–971; Murray (1903) p. 47. Hansen, p. 221 shows two images one captioned "Selene riding a mule", the other "Selene riding a ram". Cf. Pausanias, 5.11.8;.
  65. ^ Neils, pp. 236–237; Palagia, p. 22. This is the usual interpretation, but some have suggested that instead of Selene, the goddess on the right could be Nyx or Eos, e.g. see Robertson, Martin 1981, p. 96. The same pair also appear on the North Metopes of the Parthenon, with Selene this time entering the sea on horseback, see Hurwit, p. 170.
  66. ^ Robertson, Martin 1981, p. 96, Pausanias, 5.11.8.
  67. ^ Morris, p. 87. For another example of the framing of a scene, in this case the Judgement of Paris, see Robertson, Martin 1992, p. 255.
  68. ^ Thomas, p.17; Mitchell, p. 92.
  69. ^ Savignoni, pp. 270–271; Cohen, pp. 178–179; LIMC Selene, Luna 35; Zschietzschmann, p. 23.
  70. ^ British Museum 1923,0401.199; LIMC Selene, Luna 21; LIMC Selene, Luna 4; LIMC Mithras 113; LIMC Selene, Luna 15; LIMC Selene, Luna 34; LIMC Selene, Luna 2; LIMC Selene, Luna 7; LIMC Selene, Luna 9; LIMC Selene, Luna 10; LIMC Selene, Luna 19. For the close association between the crescent moon and horns see Cashford.
  71. ^ Parisinou, p. 34.
  72. ^ Sorabella, p. 70; Morford, p. 65.
  73. ^ 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.
  74. ^ de Clarac, p. 340; "Site officiel du musée du Louvre". cartelfr.louvre.fr. Retrieved 2020-04-22.; "Image gallery: drawing / album". British Museum. Retrieved 2020-04-22..
  75. ^ The Oxford Classical Dictionary, s.v. SELENE, pp. 970–971; Burkert 1991, p. 176
  76. ^ Plutarch, Agis 9; Pausanias, 3.26.1.
  77. ^ Pausanias, 6.24.6.
  78. ^ Willetts, p. 178; Cook, p. 732; Roscher, p. 100; Scholiast on Demosthenes, 21.39a.
  79. ^ Cox, p. 138; Casford p. 174.
  80. ^ Parker 2005, p. 447.
  81. ^ Robertson, Noel 1996, p. 75 note 109; Willets, pp. 178–179; Cook, 732; Harpers, "Selene"; Smith, "Pandia"; Lexica Segueriana s.v. Πάνδια (Bekker, p. 292); Photius, Lexicon s.v. Πάνδια.
  82. ^ This Epigenes has been tentatively identified with Epigenes, the follower of Socrates, see Blum, p. 180; Edmonds 2013, p.14.
  83. ^ Jones, pp. 50–51, citing Clement of Alexandria, Stromata: Abel, frg. 253.

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