"May you [#Luna-Selene 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 ff
🏛️ #Selene in her chariot drawn by bulls across the sky, about 1st CE, British Museum
Hello, Myth Lovers! Join us for #Monday's theme: BONES. How are bones featured in mythology? Use the hashtag #MythologyMonday and write out a story. See you soon! 🦴🦴🦴
"Swelled like young Mene's [Selene's] arching chariot-rail when high over Okeanos' fathomless-flowing stream she rises, with the space half filled with light betwixt her bowing horns."
Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 1.147
Sculpture of #Selene carved from a cylinder of coarse-grained marble. It shows no traces of reworking. The right hand, which may have held a torch, is missing. She probably adorned a sanctuary, perhaps a domestic one.
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🏛️ Statue of Selene, white marble (Proconnesio), dated 250-300 CE
Hello, Myth Lovers! Join us for #Monday's theme: Fruits, Nuts, and Seeds. Which myths feature a fruit or nut as part of the story? Write out a tale and tag us with #MythologyMonday. See you on December 4 🌰
"As wind rises, golden Phoebe [Luna-Selene] ever blushes. But if at her 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."
Virgil, Georgics 1. 426
🏛️ Roman oil lamp decorated with the goddess #Luna
#Diana-Selene wears a crescent-moon ornament in her hair and a torch in her right hand, attributes characteristic of the moon goddess. The statue has been found near the Porta San Sebastiano.
🏛️ #Selene, 1st century CE, Musei Capitolini: Palazzo Nuovo, #Rome
It's Monday and I have errands to run. The world better look out... 🤘🏼
Try and have a good one! The "sensation, horror, shock" is, of course, optional, but I recommend it. I may put my vampire fangs in as I roam about town, just as a little treat to myself.
Greetings, myth lovers! Join @AimeeMaroux for today's theme: redheads. Which #myths feature redheads, gingers, or otherwise red-haired characters? Tell us a the myth & tag #MythologyMonday with your #redhead lore. See you #Monday! 👩🦰
Greetings, myth lovers! Join @AimeeMaroux for today's theme: redheads. Which #myths feature redheads, gingers, or otherwise red-haired characters? Tell us a the myth & tag #MythologyMonday with your #redhead lore. See you #Monday! 👩🦰
"The Astera (Stars) hide away their shining form around lovely #Selene (the Moon) when in all her fullnesss she shines over all the earth." #Sappho, Fragment 34
🏛️ Luna-Selene, relief on the pediment at the Roman Baths
Greetings, myth lovers! Join @AimeeMaroux for today's theme: Pumpkins. Which myths feature pumpkins, gourds or squashes? Tell us a the myth & tag #MythologyMonday with your #pumpkin lore. See you #Monday! 🎃