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The Sleep of Endymion by Anne-Louis Girodet (1791), Musée du Louvre, Paris. In Greek mythology, Endymion[a] (/ ɛnˈdɪmiən /; 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 ...
Nonnus has Selene and Endymion as the parents of the beautiful Narcissus, although in other accounts, including Ovid's Metamorphoses, Narcissus was the son of Cephissus and Liriope. [ 49 ] Quintus Smyrnaeus makes Selene, by her brother Helios , the mother of the Horae , goddesses and personifications of the four seasons; Winter, Spring, Summer ...
In Greek mythology, Hypnos (/ ˈhɪpnɒs /; Ancient Greek: Ὕπνος, 'sleep'), [3] also spelled Hypnus, is the personification of sleep; the Roman equivalent is known as Somnus. His name is the origin of the word hypnosis. [4] Pausanias wrote that Hypnos was the dearest friend of the Muses. [5]
Endymion is a poem by John Keats first published in 1818 by Taylor and Hessey of Fleet Street in London. John Keats dedicated this poem to the late poet Thomas Chatterton. The poem begins with the line "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever". Endymion is written in rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter (also known as heroic couplets).
In Greek mythology, Tithonus (/ tɪˈθoʊnəs / or / taɪ -/; Ancient Greek: Τιθωνός, romanized:Tithonos) was the lover of Eos, Goddess of the Dawn. [ i ] He was a prince of Troy, the son of King Laomedon by the Naiad Strymo (Στρυμώ). [ ii ] The mythology reflected by the fifth-century vase-painters of Athens envisaged Tithonus as ...
Baroque. Location. Palazzo Farnese, Rome. The Loves of the Gods is a monumental fresco cycle, completed by the Bolognese artist Annibale Carracci and his studio, in the Farnese Gallery which is located in the west wing of the Palazzo Farnese, now the French Embassy, in Rome. The frescoes were greatly admired at the time, and were later ...
Eos is the sister of Helios, the god of the sun, and Selene, the goddess of the moon, "who shine upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless gods who live in the wide heaven". [45] Out of the four authors that give her and her siblings a birth order, two make her the oldest child, the other two the youngest.
In Greek mythology, Ganymede is the son of Tros of Dardania, [ 7 ][ 8 ][ 9 ] from whose name "Troy" is supposedly derived, either by his wife Callirrhoe, daughter of the river god Scamander, [ 10 ][ 11 ][ 12 ] or Acallaris, daughter of Eumedes. [ 13 ] Depending on the author, he is the brother of either Ilus, Assaracus, Cleopatra, or Cleomestra.