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  2. Endymion (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Endymion [a] (/ ɛ n ˈ d ɪ m i ə n /; Ancient Greek: Ἐνδυμίων, gen.: Ἐνδυμίωνος) was variously a handsome Aeolian shepherd, hunter, or king who was said to rule and live at Olympia in Elis. [1] He was also venerated and said to reside on Mount Latmus in Caria, on the west coast of Asia Minor. [2]

  3. Aetolus (son of Endymion) - Wikipedia

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    Greek text available from the same website. Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by ...

  4. Endymion (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Endymion is written in rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter (also known as heroic couplets). Keats based the poem on the Greek myth of Endymion, the shepherd beloved of the moon goddess Selene. The poem elaborates on the original story and renames Selene "Cynthia" (an alternative name for Artemis).

  5. Selene - Wikipedia

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    Philologist Max Müller's interpretation of solar mythology as it related to Selene and Endymion concluded that the myth was a narrativized version of linguistic terminology. Because the Greek endyein meant "to dive," the name Endymion ("Diver") at first simply described the process of the setting sun "diving" into the sea. In this case, the ...

  6. Myia (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    In his satirical second-century work Praising a Fly (Latin: Muscae Encomium, Ancient Greek: Μυίας ἐγκώμιον), author Lucian of Samosata (modern Samsat) related the—otherwise unattested—myth of Myia, an exceedingly fair but also very chatty young maiden who fell in love with Endymion, a very handsome mortal man who had been granted immortality via eternal slumber. [3]

  7. Diana and Endymion - Wikipedia

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    Diana and Endymion; The Loves of the Gods This page was last edited on 19 December 2023, at 07:30 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...

  8. 500 mythology names to give your baby a powerful start in life

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    Luna, for example, is a name from Roman mythology and is the number 10 ranked name for baby girls. Others, like Eleuthia, have never cracked the top 1,000 list of boys ’ or girl s’ names in ...

  9. Endymion - Wikipedia

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    Endymion primarily refers to: Endymion (mythology), an Ancient Greek shepherd; Endymion, by John Keats; Endymion may also refer to: Fictional characters.