Endymion
Endymion is the lover of Selene and father of her fifty daughters, often assumed to represent the fifty lunar months of the Olympiad. He is also named as the father of Narcissus in some accounts.
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- First attested
- 500 BCE
- Attested period
- -500 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Mentioned by Pausanias and Nonnus in connection with Selene and the lunar cycle.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Eunomia, Dike, Musaeus, Eumolpus, Muia, Helios, Hera, Themis, Eirene, Nemea, Horae, Ersa, Pandia, Aphrodite, Eros, satyr, Venus, Mercury, Adonis, Cupid, Artemis (Diana), Serapis, Orpheus
- parent of
- Narcissus
- allied with
- Diana
Mentioned by
- Helios
- Hera
- Themis
- Eirene
- Nemea
- Horae
- Ersa
- Pandia
- Aphrodite
- Eros
- satyr
- Venus
- Mercury
- Adonis
- Cupid
- Artemis (Diana)
and 4 more
Sources
Source passages
“the Moon fell in love with him, and Zeus allowed him to choose what he would, and he chose to sleep for ever, remaining deathless and ageless”
#19033 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“dancers portraying Diana, the Roman goddess of the moon, the hunt, and chastity; Endymion, a beautiful shepherd, and a Satyr. This divertissement told of a poetic encounter in which Diana (or Selene, another name for the moon goddess) looked down upon the sleeping youth, descended to earth, kissed him, and fell in love”
#19798 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Diana herself (ballerina) is shown to be falling in love with a sleeping Endymion (male dancer), and then to further more elaborate ballets representing Diana and Cupid's(ballerina en travesti) meeting, Cupid's wakening Endymion and eventually Endymon's making love to Diana and his admission onto her cart.”
#38167 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Beneath this, a relief in the tympanum depicts the Moon goddess Selene, leaning over her dead lover Endymion.”
#46454 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free