Editing Selene (section)

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[[File:Palazzo gerini, cortile, busti 11 selene.JPG|Bust of Selene, in the courtyard of [[Palazzo Gerini]].|thumb|left|230px]]

[[Diodorus Siculus]] recorded an unorthodox version of the myth, in which Basileia, who had succeeded her father Uranus to his royal throne, married her brother Hyperion, and had two children, a son Helios and a daughter Selene, "admired for both their beauty and their chastity". Because Basileia's other brothers envied these offspring, and feared that Hyperion would try to seize power for himself, they conspired against him. They put Hyperion to the sword, and drowned Helios in the river Eridanus. Selene herself, upon discovering this, took her own life. After these deaths, her brother appeared in a dream to their grieving mother and assured her that he and his sister would now transform into divine natures; and:<ref>Caldwell, p. 40, on lines 207&ndash;210; [[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/3D*.html#57 3.57].</ref>

[[File:Antalya Museum Selene statue 9650.jpg|thumb|220px|Roman statue of Selene, marble 2nd century AD, Museum of Antalya.]]

{{Blockquote|that which had formerly been called the "holy fire" in the heavens would be called by men Helius ("the sun") and that addressed as "menê" would be called Selenê ("the moon").<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/3D*.html#57.5 3.57.5].</ref>}}

[[Plutarch]] recorded a [[fable]]-like story in which Selene asked her mother to weave her a garment to fit her measure, and her mother replied that she was unable to do so, as she kept changing shape and size, sometimes full, then crescent-shaped and others yet half her size.<ref>[[Plutarch]], ''[[Moralia]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/plutarch-moralia_dinner_seven_wise_men/1928/pb_LCL222.409.xml 157 C].</ref>

In Lucian's ''{{Interlanguage link|Icaromenippus|fi|Ikaromenippos}}'', Selene complains to the titular [[Menippus]] of all the outrageous claims philosophers are making about her, such as wondering why she is ever waxing or gibbous, whether she is populated or not, and stating that she is getting her stolen light from the [[Sun]], causing strife and ill feelings between her and her [[Helios|brother]]. She asks Menippus to report her grievances to [[Zeus]], with the request that Zeus wipes all these natural philosophers from the face of the earth.<ref>[[Lucian]], ''Icaromenippus'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/lucian-icaromenippus_sky_man/1915/pb_LCL054.301.xml 20&ndash;21].</ref> Zeus agrees, urged by Selene's complaints and having long intended to deal with the philosophers himself.<ref>[[Lucian]], ''Icaromenippus'' [http://lucianofsamosata.info/wiki/doku.php?id=home:texts_and_library:dialogues:icaromenippus#section29 29-33]</ref>

[[Claudian]] wrote that in her infancy, when her horns had not yet grown, Selene (along with Helios – their sister [[Eos]] is not mentioned with them) was nursed by her aunt, the water goddess [[Tethys (mythology)|Tethys]].<ref>[[Claudian]], ''Rape of Persephone'' [https://archive.org/details/claudia02clau/page/322/mode/2up?view=theater 2.44&ndash;54].</ref>

According to [[pseudo-Plutarch]], [[Lilaeus (mythology)|Lilaeus]] was an Indian shepherd who only worshipped Selene among the gods and performed her rituals and mysteries at night. The other gods, angered, sent him two lions to tear him apart. Selene then turned Lilaeus into a mountain, Mt. Lilaeon.<ref>[[Pseudo-Plutarch]], ''On Rivers'' 25.4; Grimal s.v. [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofclas00grim/page/259/mode/2up?view=theater Lilaeus]. Pseudo-Plutarch attributes this story to Clitophon's ''Indica'', perhaps recording an Indian tale using names of Greek gods.</ref>

Ovid mentions how in the myth of [[Phaethon]], Helios' son who drove his father's chariot for a day, when Phaethon lost control of the chariot and burned the earth, Selene in the sky looked down to see in amazement her brother's horses running wild lower than normal.<ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-metamorphoses/1916/pb_LCL042.75.xml 2.208–209]</ref>