Selene and Endymion
12/22/202317 min
Oh Muses! Help us tell the tale of a mortal who fell in love with a moon goddess. We encounter having fifty daughters, the ramifications of immortality, getting your affairs in order, Zeus’ jealousy, and eternal sleep.
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First 90 secondsKenny Curtis· Host0:00
The stories featured in Greeking Out! are original adaptations of classic Greek myths. This week's story features having 50 daughters, falling in love with a mortal, Zeus's jealousy, and eternal sleep.
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Greeking Out! The greatest stories in history were told in Greek mythology. Greeking Out! Gods and heroes, amazing feats. Listen and you'll see. It's Greeking Out!
Kenny Curtis· Host0:26
This is the story of Selene and Endymion. Now at first, you might think this is the story of a man who falls in love with the moon, but really it's the other way around. The moon falls deeply in love with a mortal man. And if we've learned nothing on this podcast by now, we've learned that things like that can get complicated. Selene was a Titan, daughter of Hyperion and Theia, and sister to Helios, god of the sun, and Eos, goddess of the dawn. Now, you may have heard that Artemis was the goddess of the moon and Apollo was the god of the sun, but that's only because people sometimes lump them together with Helios and Selene. If you've been a listener for a while, you might also remember that the Titans ruled everything before Zeus and the Olympians took over. Since they were all immortal, the Titans weren't destroyed or anything. The really bad ones were imprisoned, but many of them were just given day jobs for eternity, so they had to do things for the Earth like drive the sun and