#moonmonday — Public Fediverse posts
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Moon Over Wagon Wheel Gap (May 2017)
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Moon Over Wagon Wheel Gap (May 2017)
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Mundilferi is he who began the moon,
And fathered the flaming sun;
The round of heaven each day they run,
To tell the time for men."
Poetic Edda, Vafþrúðnismál, stanza 23🎨 Máni, God of the Moon by ChrissaBug
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Mundilferi is he who began the moon,
And fathered the flaming sun;
The round of heaven each day they run,
To tell the time for men."
Poetic Edda, Vafþrúðnismál, stanza 23🎨 Máni, God of the Moon by ChrissaBug
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Luna rises under no debt to her brother's rays."
Virgil, Georgics 1.395🏛️ #Luna, Roman statuette
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Luna rises under no debt to her brother's rays."
Virgil, Georgics 1.395🏛️ #Luna, Roman statuette
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Selene, circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted Helios."
Euripides, Phoenicians 175🏛️ #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! 🌛
"Selene, circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted Helios."
Euripides, Phoenicians 175🏛️ #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! 🌛
"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 Helios🏛️ 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! 🌛
"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 Helios🏛️ 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! 🌛
"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 48.582🏛️ 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! 🌛
"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 48.582🏛️ 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! 🌛
"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. 179🏛️ 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! 🌛
"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. 179🏛️ 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! 🌛
"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 937🏛️ 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! 🌛
"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 937🏛️ 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! 🌛
"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. 28🏛️ #Fresco painting of Selene and #Endymion in House of Ara Massima in #Pompeii
📸 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! 🌛
"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. 28🏛️ #Fresco painting of Selene and #Endymion in House of Ara Massima in #Pompeii
📸 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! 🌛
"Through the blue-black vault of the stars and of Selana (Selene the Moon) who gives swift childbirth."
Timotheus, Frag 803🏛️ 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! 🌛
"Through the blue-black vault of the stars and of Selana (Selene the Moon) who gives swift childbirth."
Timotheus, Frag 803🏛️ 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! 🌛
"It was naked that Endymion enraptured Phoebus's sister [Selene] and naked, they say, lay with the goddess."
Propertius, Elegies 2. 15🏛️ 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! 🌛
"It was naked that Endymion enraptured Phoebus's sister [Selene] and naked, they say, lay with the goddess."
Propertius, Elegies 2. 15🏛️ 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! 🌛
"Instead of the wedding torch, Selene (the Moon) sent her beams to attend the wedding."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 38.135🏛️ Selene and Endymion #mosaic, circa 3th century CE
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #MosaicMonday
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Instead of the wedding torch, Selene (the Moon) sent her beams to attend the wedding."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 38.135🏛️ Selene and Endymion #mosaic, circa 3th century CE
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene #MosaicMonday
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"A well-crafted sky, ablaze with stars, and the brightness of the full moon shining in the center of the shield, the moon that is the most revered of the stars, the eye of night."
Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 389🏛️ #Selene marble relief, Argos, 2nd-3rd century CE
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"A well-crafted sky, ablaze with stars, and the brightness of the full moon shining in the center of the shield, the moon that is the most revered of the stars, the eye of night."
Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 389🏛️ #Selene marble relief, Argos, 2nd-3rd century CE
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Against Mene the moon I [Helios the Sun] move my rolling ball, the sparkling nourisher of sheaf-producing growth, and pass on my endless circuit about the turning-point of the Zodiac, creating the measures of time."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 38.244🏛️ #Luna, Roman bronze figurine, 100 BCE - 100 CE
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Against Mene the moon I [Helios the Sun] move my rolling ball, the sparkling nourisher of sheaf-producing growth, and pass on my endless circuit about the turning-point of the Zodiac, creating the measures of time."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 38.244🏛️ #Luna, Roman bronze figurine, 100 BCE - 100 CE
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Rosy-fingered Selene (the Moon) after sunset, surpasssing all the stars, and her light spreads alike over the salt sea and the flowery fields; the dew is shed in beauty, and roses bloom and tender chervil and flowery melilot."
#Sappho, Fragment 96🏛️ #Luna, Roman marble head, circa 1st - early 2nd century CE
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Rosy-fingered Selene (the Moon) after sunset, surpasssing all the stars, and her light spreads alike over the salt sea and the flowery fields; the dew is shed in beauty, and roses bloom and tender chervil and flowery melilot."
#Sappho, Fragment 96🏛️ #Luna, Roman marble head, circa 1st - early 2nd century CE
#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"May you [Luna, the Moon] wear a shining face and, the clouds all scattered, fare on with undimmed horns, when you drive your car through the nightly skies."
Seneca, Phaedra 417🏛️ #Luna, detail from the Parabiago plate, ca 2nd–5th centuries CE
@antiquidons @mythology #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"May you [Luna, the Moon] wear a shining face and, the clouds all scattered, fare on with undimmed horns, when you drive your car through the nightly skies."
Seneca, Phaedra 417🏛️ #Luna, detail from the Parabiago plate, ca 2nd–5th centuries CE
@antiquidons @mythology #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"If at her [Luna's] fourth rising--for that is our surest guide--she pass through the sky clear and with undimmed horns, then all that day, and the days born of it to the month's end, shall be free from rain and wind; and the sailors, safe in port."
Virgil, Georgics 1.426🏛️ #Luna, Roman bronze bust, 140-150 CE
@antiquidons @mythology #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"If at her [Luna's] fourth rising--for that is our surest guide--she pass through the sky clear and with undimmed horns, then all that day, and the days born of it to the month's end, shall be free from rain and wind; and the sailors, safe in port."
Virgil, Georgics 1.426🏛️ #Luna, Roman bronze bust, 140-150 CE
@antiquidons @mythology #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Shining Eos carried off Orion for a bridegroom, and Selene Endymion."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5.516🏛️ #Selene and Endymion, detail of an ivory Querinian diptych from Roman Civilization, circa 5th century CE, found in #Brescia
@antiquidons @mythology #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #ReliefWednesday
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Shining Eos carried off Orion for a bridegroom, and Selene Endymion."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5.516🏛️ #Selene and Endymion, detail of an ivory Querinian diptych from Roman Civilization, circa 5th century CE, found in #Brescia
@antiquidons @mythology #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #ReliefWednesday
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"The changing circuits of Selene as she comes back and back again--how she changes her returning shape in three circles, new-shining, half-moon, and gleaming with full face; how her splendour now touching, now shrinking back, at the male furnace of father Helios"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 4.279🏛️ #Selene, #Mosaic of the Planetarium, Italica
@antiquidons @mythology #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #MosaicMonday
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"The changing circuits of Selene as she comes back and back again--how she changes her returning shape in three circles, new-shining, half-moon, and gleaming with full face; how her splendour now touching, now shrinking back, at the male furnace of father Helios"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 4.279🏛️ #Selene, #Mosaic of the Planetarium, Italica
@antiquidons @mythology #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #MosaicMonday
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Selene, they say, fell in love with this Endymion and bore him fifty daughters. [...] The folk of Herakleia say that he retired to Mount Latmos and give him honour, there being a shrine of Endymion on Latmos."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.1.4🏛️ #Eros, #Selene & #Endymion, circa 3th century BCE, from ancient Dimitrias, Magnesia, now at the National Museum of Athens
@antiquidons @mythology #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Selene, they say, fell in love with this Endymion and bore him fifty daughters. [...] The folk of Herakleia say that he retired to Mount Latmos and give him honour, there being a shrine of Endymion on Latmos."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.1.4🏛️ #Eros, #Selene & #Endymion, circa 3th century BCE, from ancient Dimitrias, Magnesia, now at the National Museum of Athens
@antiquidons @mythology #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"The allwhite stone of Selene [the moonstone], which fades as the horned goddess wanes, and waxes when Mene (the Moon) newkindled distils her horn's liquid light and milks out the self-gotten fire of Father Helios."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5.88🏛️ #Selene riding her chariot pulled by two bulls, Sardonyx cameo, 2nd century CE
@antiquidons @mythology #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"The allwhite stone of Selene [the moonstone], which fades as the horned goddess wanes, and waxes when Mene (the Moon) newkindled distils her horn's liquid light and milks out the self-gotten fire of Father Helios."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5.88🏛️ #Selene riding her chariot pulled by two bulls, Sardonyx cameo, 2nd century CE
@antiquidons @mythology #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Mene (the Moon) helped Bromios [Dionysos], attacking Pentheus with her divine scourge; the frenzied reckless fury of distracting Selene joining in displayed many a phantom shape to maddened Pentheus [who became lunatic or moon-struck]"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 46.97🏛️ #Selene on an oil lamp, 2nd-3rd century, #Corinth
@antiquidons @mythology #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Mene (the Moon) helped Bromios [Dionysos], attacking Pentheus with her divine scourge; the frenzied reckless fury of distracting Selene joining in displayed many a phantom shape to maddened Pentheus [who became lunatic or moon-struck]"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 46.97🏛️ #Selene on an oil lamp, 2nd-3rd century, #Corinth
@antiquidons @mythology #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"From afar the chambers breathing magic spells burst open and the grim doors flew wide, and she [Medea] gazed at all that she had torn from the ocean-bed or from the Shades below, or drawn down from the blood-red visage of #Luna."
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 7.327🏛️ Apulian Red Figure Krater, 4th century BCE
https://www.theoi.com/Gallery/T18.4.html@antiquidons @mythology #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"From afar the chambers breathing magic spells burst open and the grim doors flew wide, and she [Medea] gazed at all that she had torn from the ocean-bed or from the Shades below, or drawn down from the blood-red visage of #Luna."
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 7.327🏛️ Apulian Red Figure Krater, 4th century BCE
https://www.theoi.com/Gallery/T18.4.html@antiquidons @mythology #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"They say that the Lion of Nemea fell from the moon. At any rate Epimenides also has these words: ‘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.’"
🏛️ Nemean Lion Mosaic, 3rd century CE, Archaeological Museum of Paros
@antiquidons @mythology #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology
