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# Sélène # Jules Louis Machard # myth # archer # greek mythology # goddess # moon # Phoebe
msbehavoyeur: Sélène ~ Jules Louis Machard, Oil on Canvas, 1874,  via alternate  via Selene was the Greek moon goddess, daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia (according to Hesiod), and the sister of Helios and Eos. Later, she was identified with Artemis and called Phoebe. As Phoebe she was a huntress and archer. Selene was worshiped on the days of full and new moons. She is described in the Homeric Hymn to Semele as mating with Zeus, through which union she produced Pandeia. She was in love with Endymion, according to Sappho and later sources. With him she had 50 daughters representing the months between the Olympic games. Every night, Selene visited and embraced Endymion, who slept as a result of the gift to him of eternal life and youth through eternal sleep.

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Sélène ~ Jules Louis Machard, Oil on Canvas, 1874,  via

alternate  via

Selene was the Greek moon goddess, daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia (according to Hesiod), and the sister of Helios and Eos. Later, she was identified with Artemis and called Phoebe. As Phoebe she was a huntress and archer. Selene was worshiped on the days of full and new moons.

She is described in the Homeric Hymn to Semele as mating with Zeus, through which union she produced Pandeia. She was in love with Endymion, according to Sappho and later sources. With him she had 50 daughters representing the months between the Olympic games. Every night, Selene visited and embraced Endymion, who slept as a result of the gift to him of eternal life and youth through eternal sleep.

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# medusa # gorgon # pegausu # perseus # greek mythology # greek
centuriespast: Antonio TempestaItalian (Florence, Italy 1555 - 1630 Rome, Italy) Perseus Killing Medusa, 1606 Series: Illustrations to Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”PrintEtching10.5 x 12 cm (4 1/8 x 4 3/4 in.) B. 678Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum

centuriespast:

Antonio Tempesta
Italian (Florence, Italy 1555 - 1630 Rome, Italy) 
Perseus Killing Medusa, 1606
Series: Illustrations to Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”
Print
Etching
10.5 x 12 cm (4 1/8 x 4 3/4 in.) 
B. 678
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum

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# demeter # Greek Mythology # Roman Mythology # goddess # Persephone
Demeter Mourning Persephone by Evelyn de Morgan (1906). In Greek Mythology Demeter is the Goddess of the bountiful harvest (amongst other things). Demeter loses her daughter Persephone to the god Hades and the Underworld. During her sorrowful search for her daughter she turns the earth into a desolate wasteland and starves the people. In the end Demeter is reunited with her daughter but only for part of each year, the rest of the time Hades gets her.

Demeter Mourning Persephone by Evelyn de Morgan (1906).
In Greek Mythology Demeter is the Goddess of the bountiful harvest (amongst other things). Demeter loses her daughter Persephone to the god Hades and the Underworld. During her sorrowful search for her daughter she turns the earth into a desolate wasteland and starves the people.
In the end Demeter is reunited with her daughter but only for part of each year, the rest of the time Hades gets her.

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# cupid # jupiter # greek # Greek Mythology
Cupid Pleads with Jupiter by Raphael, 1517-18.  “On swift wings he [Cupid] made his way to the very summit of heaven and pleaded his cause as a suppliant with great Jupiter. Jupiter took Cupid’s face in his hand, pulled it to his own, and kissed him, saying… I will do what you ask.”

Cupid Pleads with Jupiter by Raphael, 1517-18. 

“On swift wings he [Cupid] made his way to the very summit of heaven and pleaded his cause as a suppliant with great Jupiter. Jupiter took Cupid’s face in his hand, pulled it to his own, and kissed him, saying… I will do what you ask.”
Source: visionsofwhimsy.blogspot.com