Selene

Moon goddess, daughter of Hyperion, who drives the lunar chariot.

Parentage

• father: HyperionHesiod, Theogony 371–374 (primary)
• mother: TheiaHesiod, Theogony 371–374 (primary)

Domains

• moon

Powers

• Drives her chariot bringing moonlight over night
• Gives light by night, her radiance wheeling round the earth
• Measures out the months

Epithets

• εὐστέφανος greek · eustephanos · hymnicFair-crowned; the bright-garlanded Moon of the Homeric HymnHymn. Hom. 32.1, 6 (to Selene) (primary)
• Μήνη greek · Mene · hymnicThe Moon (by the month); the lunar goddess by her cyclic nameHymn. Hom. 32.1; Pind. Ol. 3.19-20 (primary)

Relations

• sibling: HeliosFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Hyperion & Theia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• father: HyperionHesiod, Theogony 371–374 (primary)
• mother: TheiaHesiod, Theogony 371–374 (primary)
• counterpart of: SeleneThe hymn addresses this deity in an Orphic ritual context; Greek genealogy is not imported.Orphic Hymns, 8 (Thomas Taylor numbering; modern hymn 9) (primary)

Sources

• existence: Hesiod, Theogony 371-374 (primary)