It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 
"May you [Luna, the Moon] wear a shining face and, the clouds all scattered, fare on with undimmed horns; when you drive your car through the nightly skies."
Seneca, Phaedra 417
#Luna, Roman statuette, Antikensammlung Berlin
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"The Crab is said to have been put among the stars by the favour of Juno, because, when Hercules had stood firm against the Lernaean Hydra, it had snapped at his foot from the swamp. Hercules, enraged, had killed it, and Juno put it among the constellations."
Hyginus, Astronomica 2.23
Bronze #coin, 138-161 CE, found off the coast of Haifa, Israel
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Vanquished night draws in her wandering fires as the new day is born, and Phosphorus brings up the rear of the shining host [...] Titan [Sol] peeps forth from Oeta's crest; [...] touched by Aurora, flush red, and Phoebus' sister [#Luna] flees away, to return again."
Seneca, Hercules Furens 125
#Helios and #Selene, ca. 330 – 310 BCE, found in Canosa, Italy
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"The very moon was
darkened by mourning and deserted the stars and
her heavenly path. For you did perish by a
pestilence that devastated all the land, before you
could grasp in your young hand the sceptre of your
fathers."
Anthologia Graeca, Epigram 7.241
#Selene, Sardonyx Cameo, 1st century BCE
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"A well-crafted sky, ablaze with stars, and the brightness of the full moon (#Selene) shining in the center of the shield, the moon that is the most revered of the stars, the eye of night."
Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 389
#Luna, snake amulet, Pompeii
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Luna (the Moon) rules the months."
#Ovid, Fasti 3.883
Helios-Sol and Selene-Luna, Roman #mosaic, ca. 4th century CE, Necropolis of mausoleo “M”, Basílica de San Pedro del Vaticano
Source:
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Ο stars, and #Selene, who light beautifully Love's friends on their way, and Nyx, and you, my little musical instrument, companion of my revels."
Anthologia Graeca, Epigram 5.191
Silver pendant from Bactrian culture in Afghanistan, circa 1st-2nd century CE.
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Sweet voiced Muses, daughters of Zeus, well skilled in song, tell of the Long-winged Mene [Selene]. From her immortal head a radiance is shown from heaven and embraces earth; and great is the beauty that arises from her shining light. The air, unlit before, glows with the light of her golden crown."
Homeric Hymn 32 to Selene
#Selene vase painting
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Luna (the Moon) herself has ordained various days in various grades as lucky for work. Shun the fifth: then pale Orcus [Oath] and the Eumenides [Erinyes, Furies] were born."
Virgil, Georgics 1.276
#Luna, Fragment of a Roman #mosaic, Villa of Orbe-Boscéaz (in situ), near Orbe, 3rd century CE
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"#Selene (the Moon), circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted Helios!"
#Euripides, Phoenicians 175
#Luna-Selene, relief on the pediment at the Roman Baths
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"So does starlight splendour wane with the coming of the sun, and the huddled flock of the Pleiades vanish away when Phoebe [#Selene the Moon], shining with borrowed light [from the sun], with encircling horns encloses her full-orbed disk."
Seneca, Medea 95
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"The Titanian queen [Selene], borne upward through a silent world, and with her dewy chariot cooled and rarefied the air; now birds and beasts are hushed, and Somnus (Sleep) [...] beckons from the sky, shrouding a toilsome life once more in sweet oblivion."
Statius, Thebaid 1.336
Selene on a kylix, Attica ca 490 BCE, Brygos Painter
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Three nights remained before #Luna's (the Moon's) bright horns would meet and form her orb; then when she shone in fullest radiance and with form complete gazed down upon the sleeping lands below."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.179
Statue of Diana #Selene found near the Porta San Sebastiano, today in the Musei Capitolini, Palazzo Nuovo in Rome
Gypsi
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gypsi54/27759773328
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"#Selene, circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted #Helios (the Sun)."
#Euripides, Phoenicians 175
Baal-Saturnus, Helios-Sol & Selene-Luna Relief on marble bowl
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Rosy-fingered #Selene (the Moon) after sunset, surpasssing all the stars, and her light spreads alike over the salt sea and the flowery fields; the dew is shed in beauty, and roses bloom and tender chervil and flowery melilot."
#Sappho, Fragment 96
#Luna bronze statuette, 1st century CE, Staatliche Museen Antikensammlung, #Berlin
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"A team of mules unbridled and a mule-cart with silver wheels are there on the beach, but #Selene knows not how to put mules to her yokestrap--she drives a team of bulls!"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 7.222
#Luna in her biga, relief on the short west side of the Arch of Constantine, #Rome, 312—315 CE
Sergey Sosnovskiy
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"And soon #Luna [Selene] comes with veiled horns."
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8. 28
#Selene fresco, Necropolis of Cappella, Monte di Procida
Ferdinando Gangemi
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"When Mene [#Selene], full with grey fire, gilds with her face the gleaming heaven: not when, sharpening her pointed horns, she first shines, rising in the shadowless dusk of the month, but when, orbing the round radiance of her eye, she draws to herself the reflected rays of the sun."
Tryphiodorus, The Taking of Ilias 514
#Luna bust on a Roman oil lamp, dated 100 CE
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Selene (the Moon) is driving what I think is a horse. Some have said the that steed of the goddess is a mule and not a horse, and they tell a silly story about the mule."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.11.8
Selene and Nyx, Attic Pyxis
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