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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day /

looked with jealous eye through the air, to see how Ampelos rode on the murderous marauding bull. She sent him a cattlechasing gadfly and the bull, pricked all over by the sharp sting, galloped away like a horse

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2022-10-03

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day /

"'Twas with gift of such snowy wool, if we may trust the tale, that Pan, Arkadia's god, charmed and beguiled you, O Luna [#Selene], calling you to the depths of the woods; nor did you scorn his call."
Virgil, Georgics

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2022-09-19

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day /

This 3rd century CE Roman sarcophagus shows with her billowing cloak & crescent moon descending on her chariot to visit the sleeping Endymion (not shown).

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2020-03-23

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day /

Selene in her chariot, detail from the case of sarcophagus with the myth of Endymion and Selene.

3rd century CE Roman artwork found at Ostia

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2020-03-09