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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"The Crab is said to have been put among the stars by the favour of Juno, because, when Hercules had stood firm against the Lernaean Hydra, it had snapped at his foot from the swamp. Hercules, enraged, had killed it, and Juno put it among the constellations."
Hyginus, Astronomica 2.23

🏛️ Bronze #coin, 138-161 CE, found off the coast of Haifa, Israel

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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"Vanquished night draws in her wandering fires as the new day is born, and Phosphorus brings up the rear of the shining host [...] Titan [Sol] peeps forth from Oeta's crest; [...] touched by Aurora, flush red, and Phoebus' sister [#Luna] flees away, to return again."
Seneca, Hercules Furens 125

🏛️ #Helios and #Selene, ca. 330 – 310 BCE, found in Canosa, Italy

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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"The very moon was
darkened by mourning and deserted the stars and
her heavenly path. For you did perish by a
pestilence that devastated all the land, before you
could grasp in your young hand the sceptre of your
fathers."
Anthologia Graeca, Epigram 7.241

🏛️ #Selene, Sardonyx Cameo, 1st century BCE

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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"Sweet voiced Muses, daughters of Zeus, well skilled in song, tell of the Long-winged Mene [Selene]. From her immortal head a radiance is shown from heaven and embraces earth; and great is the beauty that arises from her shining light. The air, unlit before, glows with the light of her golden crown."
Homeric Hymn 32 to Selene

🏛️ #Selene vase painting

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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"Luna (the Moon) herself has ordained various days in various grades as lucky for work. Shun the fifth: then pale Orcus [Oath] and the Eumenides [Erinyes, Furies] were born."
Virgil, Georgics 1.276

🏛️ #Luna, Fragment of a Roman #mosaic, Villa of Orbe-Boscéaz (in situ), near Orbe, 3rd century CE

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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"Not ye had the wakeful dawn put all the stars to flight from heaven, and Luna [#Selene] was beholding the approach of day with fading horn."
Statius, Thebaid 12.1

🏛️ Bronze statue of the moon goddess #Luna from ancient marine cargo of a merchant ship that sank during the Late Roman period 400 CE

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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"The Titanian queen [Selene], borne upward through a silent world, and with her dewy chariot cooled and rarefied the air; now birds and beasts are hushed, and Somnus (Sleep) [...] beckons from the sky, shrouding a toilsome life once more in sweet oblivion."
Statius, Thebaid 1.336

🏛️ Selene on a kylix, Attica ca 490 BCE, Brygos Painter

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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"Three nights remained before #Luna's (the Moon's) bright horns would meet and form her orb; then when she shone in fullest radiance and with form complete gazed down upon the sleeping lands below."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.179

🏛️ Statue of Diana #Selene found near the Porta San Sebastiano, today in the Musei Capitolini, Palazzo Nuovo in Rome

📸 Gypsi
flickr.com/photos/gypsi54/2775

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