The love of her life was the handsome endymion, who became selene’s eternally slumbering consort. Endymion, son of aethlius and calyce, was a king of elis whose remarkable beauty won him the love of selene, goddess of the moon From her immortal head a radiance is shown from heaven and embraces earth And great is the beauty that ariseth from her shining light The air, unlit before, glows with the light of her golden crown, and her rays beam clear, whensoever bright selene having bathed her. Theia was one of the greek titans who fought against the olympians in their celestial war, the titanomachy
She married her brother hyperion and eventually gave birth to the gods of the sun, the moon, and the dawn. Hyperion was a greek titan who, along with most of his siblings, fought for the right to rule the cosmos but lost to the olympians Rarely mentioned in myths, he is best known for fathering the gods of the sun, moon, and dawn. Helios, son of hyperion and theia, was the personification of the sun and a god of the day Crowned with rays of golden sunlight and riding his blazing chariot, helios represented the sun’s daily journey across the sky. Eos, daughter of hyperion and theia, was the goddess of the dawn
Eos took many mortal lovers, including the handsome prince tithonus, whom she inadvertently doomed to a terrible fate. Hecate, daughter of asteria and perses, was a powerful but mysterious goddess usually associated with magic, witchcraft, and the underworld Though often an object of dread, hecate was sometimes seen as a kind goddess and a protector of justice. Adonis was a young man so handsome that he earned the affections of aphrodite, the goddess of love herself His myth ended tragically when he was slain by a boar while hunting. Artemis, one of the twelve olympians, was the greek goddess of the hunt, nature, and wild animals
A virgin goddess, she fiercely defended her chastity.
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