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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-28 07:11:27

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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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Mould-made pottery oil lamp decorated on the discus with a bust of Selene, with bull-protomes on each side and a lunar crescent behind her shoulders.

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-29 07:33:59

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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
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Reddish marble carved votive relief of Selene: a female bust to the front in an arched niche, draped in a sleeved chiton, and with her hair parted in the middle and brought down over her ears, nose now missing, surrounded by a crescent on her head, seven stars in the field around and the signs of the zodiac in low relief; inscribed beneath with an unitelligible Gnostic formula and noted in the catalogue that from its position the inscription appears to have been an afterthought.

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-25 20:51:41

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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

The so-called "Querini diptych" (after the name of one of its owners, Angelo Maria Querini) is an ivory diptych dated to the 5th century CE, belonging to ancient Roman art. The valves show reliefs of two couples of lovers from the pagan tradition, possibly Selene-Diana and Endymion and Phaedra and Hippolytus (not shown in this photo). The relief is exhibited in the archaeological Santa Giulia Museum in Brescia, Italy.

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-07 21:20:55

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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.…

Sculpture group of Selene, the Moon Goddess, in Her chariot drawn by bulls across the sky. She has a cloak billowing behind her and used to hold the reins and probably a riding crop.

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-14 21:29:26

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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 …

Mosaic of a male lion. He has his maw open and his eyes are wide. The artist gave him a blonde mane.

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-04 07:27:57

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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
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