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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 
"Let not #Zeus be angry again [. . .] and pour down showers of rain through the air to flood the circuit of the eternal universe. I hope I may not behold the sea in the sky and Selene's car soaking."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 36.119
Silver antoninianus of Julia Domna, minted in Rome, 211-217 CE
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"May you [Luna, the Moon] wear a shining face and, the clouds all scattered, fare on with undimmed horns; when you drive your car through the nightly skies."
Seneca, Phaedra 417
#Luna, Roman statuette, Antikensammlung Berlin
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Mene (the Moon), full with grey fire, gilds with her face the gleaming heaven"
Tryphiodorus, The Taking of Ilias 514
#Luna oil lamp, ca. 90-140 CE
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"The Crab is said to have been put among the stars by the favour of Juno, because, when Hercules had stood firm against the Lernaean Hydra, it had snapped at his foot from the swamp. Hercules, enraged, had killed it, and Juno put it among the constellations."
Hyginus, Astronomica 2.23
Bronze #coin, 138-161 CE, found off the coast of Haifa, Israel
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Vanquished night draws in her wandering fires as the new day is born, and Phosphorus brings up the rear of the shining host [...] Titan [Sol] peeps forth from Oeta's crest; [...] touched by Aurora, flush red, and Phoebus' sister [#Luna] flees away, to return again."
Seneca, Hercules Furens 125
#Helios and #Selene, ca. 330 – 310 BCE, found in Canosa, Italy
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"It was naked that Endymion enraptured Phoebus's sister [Selene] and naked, they say, lay with the goddess."
Propertius, Elegies 2.15
Endymion sarcophagus, detail of #Selene, #Endymion, and #Eros, early 3rd century CE
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"The very moon was
darkened by mourning and deserted the stars and
her heavenly path. For you did perish by a
pestilence that devastated all the land, before you
could grasp in your young hand the sceptre of your
fathers."
Anthologia Graeca, Epigram 7.241
#Selene, Sardonyx Cameo, 1st century BCE
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"A well-crafted sky, ablaze with stars, and the brightness of the full moon (#Selene) shining in the center of the shield, the moon that is the most revered of the stars, the eye of night."
Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 389
#Luna, snake amulet, Pompeii
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Luna (the Moon) rules the months."
#Ovid, Fasti 3.883
Helios-Sol and Selene-Luna, Roman #mosaic, ca. 4th century CE, Necropolis of mausoleo “M”, Basílica de San Pedro del Vaticano
Source:
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Ο stars, and #Selene, who light beautifully Love's friends on their way, and Nyx, and you, my little musical instrument, companion of my revels."
Anthologia Graeca, Epigram 5.191
Silver pendant from Bactrian culture in Afghanistan, circa 1st-2nd century CE.
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Sweet voiced Muses, daughters of Zeus, well skilled in song, tell of the Long-winged Mene [Selene]. From her immortal head a radiance is shown from heaven and embraces earth; and great is the beauty that arises from her shining light. The air, unlit before, glows with the light of her golden crown."
Homeric Hymn 32 to Selene
#Selene vase painting
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Selene (the Moon), circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted Helios!"
Euripides, Phoenicians 175
Statue of #Selene, white marble, 250-300 CE
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Luna (the Moon) herself has ordained various days in various grades as lucky for work. Shun the fifth: then pale Orcus [Oath] and the Eumenides [Erinyes, Furies] were born."
Virgil, Georgics 1.276
#Luna, Fragment of a Roman #mosaic, Villa of Orbe-Boscéaz (in situ), near Orbe, 3rd century CE
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"As much as all the stars are less than your bright fires when your silvery gleam goes forth with pure rays, so much more fair is she than all the fair."
#Ovid, Heroides 18.59
Roman oil lamp decorated with the goddess #Luna
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Moonset this morning over #PKOLS.
It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"#Selene (the Moon), circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted Helios!"
#Euripides, Phoenicians 175
#Luna-Selene, relief on the pediment at the Roman Baths
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Not ye had the wakeful dawn put all the stars to flight from heaven, and Luna [#Selene] was beholding the approach of day with fading horn."
Statius, Thebaid 12.1
Bronze statue of the moon goddess #Luna from ancient marine cargo of a merchant ship that sank during the Late Roman period 400 CE
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"So does starlight splendour wane with the coming of the sun, and the huddled flock of the Pleiades vanish away when Phoebe [#Selene the Moon], shining with borrowed light [from the sun], with encircling horns encloses her full-orbed disk."
Seneca, Medea 95
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Three nights remained before #Luna's (the Moon's) bright horns would meet and form her orb; then when she shone in fullest radiance and with form complete gazed down upon the sleeping lands below."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.179
Statue of Diana #Selene found near the Porta San Sebastiano, today in the Musei Capitolini, Palazzo Nuovo in Rome
Gypsi
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gypsi54/27759773328
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