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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday π‘οΈ
The #NewYear is barely a week old and shows already that Ares will be busy. Let's not forget he is also the god of riots and rebellion:
"Ares . . . ally of Themis, stern governor of the rebellious."
Homeric Hymn 8 to Aresπ #Mars Statuette, Roman Bronze
#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares #history #antiquidons
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Luna rises under no debt to her brother's rays."
Virgil, Georgics 1.395ποΈ #Luna, Roman statuette
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Luna rises under no debt to her brother's rays."
Virgil, Georgics 1.395ποΈ #Luna, Roman statuette
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Luna rises under no debt to her brother's rays."
Virgil, Georgics 1.395ποΈ #Luna, Roman statuette
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Luna rises under no debt to her brother's rays."
Virgil, Georgics 1.395ποΈ #Luna, Roman statuette
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Luna rises under no debt to her brother's rays."
Virgil, Georgics 1.395ποΈ #Luna, Roman statuette
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday π‘οΈ
Ares steers his chariot towards a #NewYear πΎ
"The Amazones of the Doiantian plain were by no means gentle, well-conducted folk; they were brutal and aggressive, and their main concern in life was war. War, indeed, was in their blood, daughters of Ares as they were."
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.989π Ares and Amazon, detail, Apulian volute krater, 5th century BCE
#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares #history #antiquidons
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Selene, circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted Helios."
Euripides, Phoenicians 175ποΈ #Luna, Roman gold medallion ca. 3rd-6th century CE
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Selene, circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted Helios."
Euripides, Phoenicians 175ποΈ #Luna, Roman gold medallion ca. 3rd-6th century CE
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Selene, circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted Helios."
Euripides, Phoenicians 175ποΈ #Luna, Roman gold medallion ca. 3rd-6th century CE
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Selene, circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted Helios."
Euripides, Phoenicians 175ποΈ #Luna, Roman gold medallion ca. 3rd-6th century CE
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Selene, circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted Helios."
Euripides, Phoenicians 175ποΈ #Luna, Roman gold medallion ca. 3rd-6th century CE
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! βοΈ
7 days after the #Solstice: the light is returning!
"He called to #Helios, reminding the chief of the stars of his love for Klymene, and prayed him to hold back his car & check the stalled horses with the heavenly bit, that he might prolong the sweet light, that he might go slow to his setting & with sparing whip increase the day to shine again."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 42.45 -
Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday π‘οΈ
"One day Ares came in from the battlefield brandishing a strong spear and began to make fun of Eros' weapon. Eros said βThis one is heavy : try it and you will see.β Ares took the javelin, while Kypris [Aphrodite] smiled quietly."
The Anacreontea, Fragment 28π Ares and #Aphrodite, 3rd century Roman #mosaic from Philipopolis, modern Shahba, #Syria
#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares #history #antiquidons #MosaicMonday
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"For Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaessa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos (Dawn) and rich-tressed Selene (the Moon)."
Homeric Hymn 31 to HeliosποΈ Selene and Eos or Nyx, Attic red-figure pyxis, 430-410 BCE
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"For Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaessa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos (Dawn) and rich-tressed Selene (the Moon)."
Homeric Hymn 31 to HeliosποΈ Selene and Eos or Nyx, Attic red-figure pyxis, 430-410 BCE
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"For Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaessa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos (Dawn) and rich-tressed Selene (the Moon)."
Homeric Hymn 31 to HeliosποΈ Selene and Eos or Nyx, Attic red-figure pyxis, 430-410 BCE
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"For Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaessa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos (Dawn) and rich-tressed Selene (the Moon)."
Homeric Hymn 31 to HeliosποΈ Selene and Eos or Nyx, Attic red-figure pyxis, 430-410 BCE
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"For Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaessa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos (Dawn) and rich-tressed Selene (the Moon)."
Homeric Hymn 31 to HeliosποΈ Selene and Eos or Nyx, Attic red-figure pyxis, 430-410 BCE
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"There were the clustering blooms which have the name Narcissus the fair youth, whom horned Selene's bridegroom Endymion begat on leafy Latmos."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.582ποΈ Selene-Luna and Endymion, #Mosaic from the Roman Imperial period, found in the Roman city of Castulo, Spain
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #Luna #MosaicMonday
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"There were the clustering blooms which have the name Narcissus the fair youth, whom horned Selene's bridegroom Endymion begat on leafy Latmos."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.582ποΈ Selene-Luna and Endymion, #Mosaic from the Roman Imperial period, found in the Roman city of Castulo, Spain
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #Luna #MosaicMonday
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"There were the clustering blooms which have the name Narcissus the fair youth, whom horned Selene's bridegroom Endymion begat on leafy Latmos."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.582ποΈ Selene-Luna and Endymion, #Mosaic from the Roman Imperial period, found in the Roman city of Castulo, Spain
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #Luna #MosaicMonday
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"There were the clustering blooms which have the name Narcissus the fair youth, whom horned Selene's bridegroom Endymion begat on leafy Latmos."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.582ποΈ Selene-Luna and Endymion, #Mosaic from the Roman Imperial period, found in the Roman city of Castulo, Spain
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #Luna #MosaicMonday
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"There were the clustering blooms which have the name Narcissus the fair youth, whom horned Selene's bridegroom Endymion begat on leafy Latmos."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.582ποΈ Selene-Luna and Endymion, #Mosaic from the Roman Imperial period, found in the Roman city of Castulo, Spain
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #Luna #MosaicMonday
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Three nights remained before Luna's bright horns would meet and form her orb; then she shone in fullest radiance and with form complete gazed down upon the sleeping lands below."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 7. 179ποΈ Selene figurine, 2nd - 3rd century CE, private collection
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #Luna
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Three nights remained before Luna's bright horns would meet and form her orb; then she shone in fullest radiance and with form complete gazed down upon the sleeping lands below."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 7. 179ποΈ Selene figurine, 2nd - 3rd century CE, private collection
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #Luna
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Three nights remained before Luna's bright horns would meet and form her orb; then she shone in fullest radiance and with form complete gazed down upon the sleeping lands below."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 7. 179ποΈ Selene figurine, 2nd - 3rd century CE, private collection
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #Luna
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Three nights remained before Luna's bright horns would meet and form her orb; then she shone in fullest radiance and with form complete gazed down upon the sleeping lands below."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 7. 179ποΈ Selene figurine, 2nd - 3rd century CE, private collection
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #Luna
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Three nights remained before Luna's bright horns would meet and form her orb; then she shone in fullest radiance and with form complete gazed down upon the sleeping lands below."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 7. 179ποΈ Selene figurine, 2nd - 3rd century CE, private collection
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #Luna
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Unwearied Helios and Selene at her full and all the signs with which heaven is crowned. Greetings, all you immortal gods everlasting and immortal goddesses!"
Greek Lyric V Anonymous, Fragments 937ποΈ Red figure pyxis, after 5th century BCE artwork
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #neoclassicalArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Unwearied Helios and Selene at her full and all the signs with which heaven is crowned. Greetings, all you immortal gods everlasting and immortal goddesses!"
Greek Lyric V Anonymous, Fragments 937ποΈ Red figure pyxis, after 5th century BCE artwork
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #neoclassicalArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Unwearied Helios and Selene at her full and all the signs with which heaven is crowned. Greetings, all you immortal gods everlasting and immortal goddesses!"
Greek Lyric V Anonymous, Fragments 937ποΈ Red figure pyxis, after 5th century BCE artwork
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #neoclassicalArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Unwearied Helios and Selene at her full and all the signs with which heaven is crowned. Greetings, all you immortal gods everlasting and immortal goddesses!"
Greek Lyric V Anonymous, Fragments 937ποΈ Red figure pyxis, after 5th century BCE artwork
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #neoclassicalArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Unwearied Helios and Selene at her full and all the signs with which heaven is crowned. Greetings, all you immortal gods everlasting and immortal goddesses!"
Greek Lyric V Anonymous, Fragments 937ποΈ Red figure pyxis, after 5th century BCE artwork
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #neoclassicalArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"The Latmian hunter [Endymion], while his comrades are yet scattered in troops about the glens, rests in the summer shade, fit lover for a goddess, and soon Luna [Selene] comes with veiled horns."
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8. 28ποΈ #Fresco painting of Selene and #Endymion in House of Ara Massima in #Pompeii
πΈ Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble
https://flickr.com/photos/pauljill/4144325814#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"The Latmian hunter [Endymion], while his comrades are yet scattered in troops about the glens, rests in the summer shade, fit lover for a goddess, and soon Luna [Selene] comes with veiled horns."
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8. 28ποΈ #Fresco painting of Selene and #Endymion in House of Ara Massima in #Pompeii
πΈ Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble
https://flickr.com/photos/pauljill/4144325814#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"The Latmian hunter [Endymion], while his comrades are yet scattered in troops about the glens, rests in the summer shade, fit lover for a goddess, and soon Luna [Selene] comes with veiled horns."
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8. 28ποΈ #Fresco painting of Selene and #Endymion in House of Ara Massima in #Pompeii
πΈ Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble
https://flickr.com/photos/pauljill/4144325814#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"The Latmian hunter [Endymion], while his comrades are yet scattered in troops about the glens, rests in the summer shade, fit lover for a goddess, and soon Luna [Selene] comes with veiled horns."
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8. 28ποΈ #Fresco painting of Selene and #Endymion in House of Ara Massima in #Pompeii
πΈ Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble
https://flickr.com/photos/pauljill/4144325814#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"The Latmian hunter [Endymion], while his comrades are yet scattered in troops about the glens, rests in the summer shade, fit lover for a goddess, and soon Luna [Selene] comes with veiled horns."
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8. 28ποΈ #Fresco painting of Selene and #Endymion in House of Ara Massima in #Pompeii
πΈ Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble
https://flickr.com/photos/pauljill/4144325814#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Through the blue-black vault of the stars and of Selana (Selene the Moon) who gives swift childbirth."
Timotheus, Frag 803ποΈ Selene, 1st century CE, Musei Capitolini: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Through the blue-black vault of the stars and of Selana (Selene the Moon) who gives swift childbirth."
Timotheus, Frag 803ποΈ Selene, 1st century CE, Musei Capitolini: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Through the blue-black vault of the stars and of Selana (Selene the Moon) who gives swift childbirth."
Timotheus, Frag 803ποΈ Selene, 1st century CE, Musei Capitolini: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Through the blue-black vault of the stars and of Selana (Selene the Moon) who gives swift childbirth."
Timotheus, Frag 803ποΈ Selene, 1st century CE, Musei Capitolini: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Through the blue-black vault of the stars and of Selana (Selene the Moon) who gives swift childbirth."
Timotheus, Frag 803ποΈ Selene, 1st century CE, Musei Capitolini: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"It was naked that Endymion enraptured Phoebus's sister [Selene] and naked, they say, lay with the goddess."
Propertius, Elegies 2. 15ποΈ Selene and Endymion #relief, Roman marble sarcophagus, circa 3rd century CE
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #ReliefWednesday
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"It was naked that Endymion enraptured Phoebus's sister [Selene] and naked, they say, lay with the goddess."
Propertius, Elegies 2. 15ποΈ Selene and Endymion #relief, Roman marble sarcophagus, circa 3rd century CE
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #ReliefWednesday
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"It was naked that Endymion enraptured Phoebus's sister [Selene] and naked, they say, lay with the goddess."
Propertius, Elegies 2. 15ποΈ Selene and Endymion #relief, Roman marble sarcophagus, circa 3rd century CE
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #ReliefWednesday
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"It was naked that Endymion enraptured Phoebus's sister [Selene] and naked, they say, lay with the goddess."
Propertius, Elegies 2. 15ποΈ Selene and Endymion #relief, Roman marble sarcophagus, circa 3rd century CE
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #ReliefWednesday
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"It was naked that Endymion enraptured Phoebus's sister [Selene] and naked, they say, lay with the goddess."
Propertius, Elegies 2. 15ποΈ Selene and Endymion #relief, Roman marble sarcophagus, circa 3rd century CE
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #ReliefWednesday