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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
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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,…

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Selene, horned driver of cattle! Now I am both--I have horns and I ride a bull!’ So he called out boasting to the round Moon. #Selene looked with a jealous eye through the air, to see how Ampleos rode on the murderous marauding bull.…

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
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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
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Hear, goddess queen, diffusing silver light, bull-horned, and wandering through the gloom of night. With stars surrounded, and with circuit wide night’s torch extending, through the heavens you ride: female and male, with silvery rays you shine, and now full-orbed, now tending to decline."
Orphic Hymn 9
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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
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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
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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

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Jupiter, assuming the form of Diana, followed the girl as if to aid her in hunting, and embraced her when out of sight of the rest. Questioned by Diana as to the reason for her swollen form, she replied that it was the goddess' fault, and because of this reply, Diana changed her into [a bear]"
Hyginus, Astronomica …

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."

Dance and make your #Monday a joy like this ancient Greek dancer. 💃 🎶
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Let not #Zeus be angry again [. . .] and pour down showers of rain through the air to flood the circuit of the eternal universe. I hope I may not behold the sea in the sky and Selene's car soaking."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 36.…

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 …