Editing Selene (section)

=== Parents ===
[[File:Clipeus Selene Terme.jpg|thumb|Detail of Selene from a Roman sarcophagus]]

The usual account of Selene's origin is given by [[Hesiod]] in his ''[[Theogony]]'', where the [[sun-god]] [[Hyperion (Titan)|Hyperion]] espoused his sister [[Theia]], who gave birth to "great Helios and clear Selene and Eos who shines upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless Gods who live in the wide heaven".<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA43 p. 43]; [[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hes.+Th.+371 371–374]. See also Apollodorus [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.%201.2.2 1.2.2], [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#0.2 Preface 12].</ref> The ''[[Homeric Hymns|Homeric Hymn to Helios]]'' follows this tradition: "Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaëssa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos and rich-tressed Selene and tireless Helios",<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA46 p. 46]; ''[[Homeric Hymns|Homeric Hymn to Helios]]'' (31) [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.01.0138%3ahymn%3d31 4–7]. Assuming that their order of mention is meant to be their order of birth, Hesiod and [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]] (''[[Fabulae]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#0.2 Preface 12]) make Helios the oldest of the siblings, with Eos the youngest, while the ''Hymn'' swaps the order of Eos and Helios, and Apollodorus ([https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.%201.2.2 1.2.2]) has Selene as the youngest, with Eos as the oldest.</ref> with ''Euryphaëssa'' ("widely shining") probably being an epithet of Theia.<ref>Morford, [https://archive.org/details/classicalmytholo0000morf_8ed/page/61/mode/2up?view=theater p. 61]; West 2003, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/homeric_hymns_31_helios/2003/pb_LCL496.215.xml p. 215 n. 61].</ref> However, the ''[[Homeric Hymns|Homeric Hymn to Hermes]]'' has Selene as the daughter of Pallas, the son of an otherwise unknown Megamedes.<ref>Vergados, [https://books.google.com/books?id=qzF9UQt8NDUC&pg=PA313 p. 313]; Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA46 p. 46]; Gantz, p. 34; ''[[Homeric Hymns|Homeric Hymn to Hermes]]'' (4), [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0013.tlg004.perseus-eng1:94-133 99&ndash;100].</ref> This Pallas is possibly identified with the [[Pallas (Titan)|Pallas]], who, according to Hesiod's ''Theogony'', was the son of the Titan [[Crius]], and thus Selene's cousin.<ref>Vergados, [https://books.google.com/books?id=qzF9UQt8NDUC&pg=PA313 p. 313]; Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA46 p. 46]; [[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0020.tlg001.perseus-eng1:371-403 375&ndash;377]. As Vergados points out, there is no indication of this genealogy elsewhere in Greek texts, however for Ovid, [[Aurora]] (Dawn), the Roman counterpart of Selene's sister Eos, was the daughter of Pallas, see ''[[Fasti]]'' [https://archive.org/details/ovidsfasti00oviduoft/page/216/mode/2up?view=theater 4.373&ndash;374], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-metamorphoses/1916/pb_LCL043.33.xml 9.421], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-metamorphoses/1916/pb_LCL043.379.xml 15.191], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-metamorphoses/1916/pb_LCL043.415.xml 15.700].</ref> Other accounts give still other parents for Selene: [[Euripides]] has Selene as the daughter of Helios (rather than sister),<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA46 p. 46]; Keightley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=YhsYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA54 p. 54 with n. 9]; [[Euripides]], ''[[The Phoenician Women]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg015.perseus-eng1:145-192 175&ndash;176] (with scholia); so also [[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/details/dionysiaca01nonnuoft/page/180/mode/2up 5.162&ndash;166], [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca03nonnuoft#page/310/mode/2up 44.191]; Scholia  on [[Aratus]] 445. Keightley quotes the Euripides scholiast as saying that [[Aeschylus]] (and others) said that Selene is Helios' daughter "because she partakes of the solar light, and changes her form according to the solar positions".</ref> while an [[Aeschylus]] fragment possibly has Selene as the daughter of [[Leto]],<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA46 p. 46], Gantz, pp. 34&ndash;35; [[Aeschylus]] [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/aeschylus-attributed_fragments/2009/pb_LCL505.173.xml fr. 170 Sommerstein] [= fr. 170 Radt, Nauck].</ref> as does a [[Scholia|scholium]] on [[Euripides]]'s play ''[[The Phoenician Women]]'' which adds Zeus as the father.<ref>[[William Smith (lexicographer)|Smith]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DS%3Aentry+group%3D11%3Aentry%3Dselene-bio-1 s.v. Selene]; [[Scholia]] on [[Euripides]]' ''[[The Phoenician Women]]'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=lUNhAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA261 179].</ref> Furthermore, in [[Virgil]]'s ''[[Aeneid]]'', when [[Nisus and Euryalus|Nisus]] calls upon Selene/the Moon, he addresses her as "daughter of Latona."<ref>[[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/245#9.367 9.404].</ref>