User:Paul August/Selene

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==Iconography==

==Iconography==

* Gury, Françoise, “Selene, Luna” in ”[[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae]] (LIMC)” VII.1 Artemis Verlag, Zürich and Munich, 1994. {{ISBN|3-7608-8751-1}}.

[[File:Wall painting – Selene and Endymion – Pompeii (VI 9 6-7) – Napoli MAN 9240.jpg|thumb|left|[[Endymion (mythology)|Endymion]] as hunter (with dog), sitting on rocks in a landscape, holding 2 spears, looking at Selene who descends to him. Antique fresco from [[Pompeii]].]]

In antiquity, artistic representations of Selene/Luna included sculptural reliefs, vase paintings, coins, and gems.<ref>Gury, pp. 706&ndash;715. For an example of a coin see [[British Museum]], [https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_R-7248 R.7248]; for an example of a gem see the British Museum [https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/search?museum_number=1923,0401.199 1923,0401.199].</ref> In [[red-figure pottery]] before the early 5th century BC, she is depicted only as a bust, or in profile against a lunar disk.<ref>Cohen, [https://books.google.com/books?id=SCA2AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA157 p. 157].</ref> In later art, like other celestial divinities such as Helios, Eos, and [[Nyx]] (“night”), Selene rides across the heavens. She is usually portrayed either driving a chariot or riding sidesaddle on horseback<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA46 p. 46]; Savignoni, [https://books.google.com/books?id=q0EaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA271 p. 271]; Walters, [https://archive.org/details/historyofancient02walt/page/79 p. 79]; Murray (1892) [https://archive.org/details/handbookofgreeka00murruoft/page/272 p. 272].</ref> (sometimes riding an ox, a mule or a ram).<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA46 p. 46]; ”[[Oxford Classical Dictionary]]”, s.v. Selene; Murray (1903) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.69739/page/n80 p. 47]. Hansen, [https://books.google.com/books?id=1Z-LIKN0Ap0C&pg=PA221 p. 221] shows two images one captioned “Selene riding a mule”, the other “Selene riding a ram”. Cf. [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+5.11.8 5.11.8].</ref>

In antiquity, artistic representations of Selene/Luna included sculptural reliefs, vase paintings, coins, and gems.<ref>Gury, pp. 706&ndash;715. For an example of a coin see [[British Museum]], [https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_R-7248 R.7248]; for an example of a gem see the British Museum [https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/search?museum_number=1923,0401.199 1923,0401.199].</ref> In [[red-figure pottery]] before the early 5th century BC, she is depicted only as a bust, or in profile against a lunar disk.<ref>Cohen, [https://books.google.com/books?id=SCA2AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA157 p. 157].</ref> In later art, like other celestial divinities such as Helios, Eos, and [[Nyx]] (“night”), Selene rides across the heavens. She is usually portrayed either driving a chariot or riding sidesaddle on horseback<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA46 p. 46]; Savignoni, [https://books.google.com/books?id=q0EaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA271 p. 271]; Walters, [https://archive.org/details/historyofancient02walt/page/79 p. 79]; Murray (1892) [https://archive.org/details/handbookofgreeka00murruoft/page/272 p. 272].</ref> (sometimes riding an ox, a mule or a ram).<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA46 p. 46]; ”[[Oxford Classical Dictionary]]”, s.v. Selene; Murray (1903) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.69739/page/n80 p. 47]. Hansen, [https://books.google.com/books?id=1Z-LIKN0Ap0C&pg=PA221 p. 221] shows two images one captioned “Selene riding a mule”, the other “Selene riding a ram”. Cf. [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+5.11.8 5.11.8].</ref>