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Image is from a Roman sarcophagus. #AncientSky #Mythology #MythologySky #GreekMythology #RomanMythology #Folklore #FolkloreSky #GreekFolklore #RomanFolklore #Greece #GreekSky #Rome #RomanSky #Selene #Moon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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