Editing Selene (section)

=== Gigantomachy ===
[[File:Altar Pérgamo Selene 02.JPG|thumb|left|Selene riding horseback, detail of the Gigantomachy frieze, [[Pergamon Altar]], [[Pergamon museum]], Berlin, c. 180&ndash;159 BC.<ref>Museum of Classical Archaeology Databases [https://museum.classics.cam.ac.uk/collections/casts/great-altar-zeus-pergamon-selene 385a].</ref>]]

[[Gaia]], angered about her children the [[Titans]] being thrown into [[Tartarus]] following their defeat, brought forth the [[Giants (Greek mythology)|Giants]], to attack the gods, in a war that was called the [[Gigantomachy]]. When Gaia heard of a prophecy that a mortal would help the gods to defeat the giants, she sought to find a herb that would make them undefeatable. Zeus heard of that, and ordered Selene as well as her siblings [[Helios]] ([[Sun]]) and [[Eos]] ([[Dawn]]) not to shine, and harvested all of that plant for himself.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D6%3Asection%3D1 1.6.1].</ref> Selene's participation in the battle is evidenced by her inclusion in the Gigantomachy frieze of the [[Pergamon Altar]], fighting against Giants next to her siblings Helios and Eos and her mother Theia in the southern frieze.<ref>Picón and Hemingway, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Vr3WCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA47 47]</ref><ref name=":han">Honan, p. [https://archive.org/details/guidetopergamonm00perg/page/20/mode/2up?q=&view=theater 20]</ref> Selene gallops sidesaddle in advance, and wears a woolen undergarment and a mantle.<ref name=":han"/> Additionally, on a rein guide for a chariot a goddess thought to be Selene with a crescent and veil over her head is depicted, who stands with Helios on a gate tower and tries to repel the attacks of snake-legged Giants.<ref>Now housed in the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]] and can be seen [https://collections.mfa.org/objects/153313/rein-guide-for-a-chariot-with-a-scene-of-the-battle-of-the-g?ctx=9f6c1772-3544-4c76-85a7-593a85983117&idx=82 here].</ref>