1. Stories of Love and Adventures

2. A
beautiful young
man, Endymion, catches the attention of
Selene, the Moon. Selene puts him in a
magical slumber: he lies as if dead, but in
fact he is alive and forever asleep. Every
night, Selene covers him with kisses, but it
is said that she still suffers from loneliness.

3. Endymion
and
Selene

5. Was
variously a handsome Aeolian.
Lover
Son
of Selene, the moon.
of Zeus

6. The
Titan goddess of the Moon.
 She drives her moon chariot across
the heavens.
Her Roman equivalent is Luna.
The etymology of Selene is
uncertain, but if the name is of Greek
origin, it is likely connected to the
word selas (σέλας), meaning "light".

7.  She
believed him to be so beautiful that
she asked Endymion's father, Zeus, to
grant him eternal youth so that he would
never leave her.
 Selene and Endymion had fifty daughters
who are equated by some scholars with
the fifty months of the Olympiad.

8.  According
to a passage in
Deipnosophistae, the poet Licymnius of
tells a different tale, in which Hypnos, the
god of sleep, in awe of his beauty, causes
him to sleep with his eyes open, so he can
fully admire his face.

9.  In
another contradictory myth, Endymion was
the first king of Elis in the Greek
Peloponessos, who founded the kingdom with
Aiolian colonists from Thessalia in the north.
Zeus granted him foreknowledge of his
death, and when his time had come he set up
a race-course at Olympia and commanded
his sons competitor the throne. Endymion
was then entombed by the starting gate of the
course.