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Endymion

The sleep of Endymion

 * Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 10.8.7
 * "Yet nevertheless they have always been conceived as, at all events, living, and therefore living actively, for we cannot suppose they are always asleep like Endymion.


 * Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 1.38.92 (Yonge, p.50):
 * "Endymion, indeed, if you listen to fables, slept once on a time on Latmus, a mountain of Caria, and for such a length of time that I imagine he is not as yet awake. Do you think that he is concerned at the Moon's being in difficulties,  though it was by her that he was thrown into that sleep, in order that she might kiss him while sleeping."*


 * Plato, Phaedo, 72c
 * "in the end, you know, that would make the sleeping Endymion mere nonsense;"


 * Theocritus, 3.49–50:
 * "O would I were Endymion that sleeps the unchanging slumber on,"


 * Cholmeley (Commentary on Theocritus) 3.49
 * "ἄτροπον dist. xxiv. 7 εὕδετ᾽ ἐμὰ βρέφεα γλυκερὸν καὶ ἐγέρσιμον ὕπνον: Mosch. Epit. Bion. 117 (of sleep of death) εὕδομες εὖ μάλα μακρὸν ἀτέρμονα νήγρετον ὕπνον. Endymion loved by Selènê was thrown by her into an endless sleep that she might ever look on him and kiss him sleeping; cf. A. Pal. v. 164 (Meleager): “     ὁ δ᾽ ἐν κόλποισιν ::ἐκείνης
 * ῥιπτασθεὶς κείσθω δεύτερος ᾿Ενδυμίων.

50 daughters

 * Cashford, p. 137
 * "These 50 children are the number of lunar months between the Olympic Games, which were held every four years (as they still are today). More exactly, the interval between the Olympic Games was alternatively 49 and 50 months, showing that the festival cycle was a period of eight years divided into two halves &mdash; the precise period which reconciles the Hellenic Moon year of 354 days with the solar year of 365 1/4 days.105 ..."


 * Astour, p. 78
 * "The exorbitant figure [the fifty daughters of Danaos], very popular in Greek myths, has its explanation: it is the number of seven-day weeks in one lunar year (50 x 7 = 350, the rounded number of days of a lunar year instead of the more exact 354). The proof of this is supplied by Odyss. XII: 129-130, where Helios is said to possess 7 herds of 50 cows each and 7 herds of 50 sheep each, a transparent allegory of the days and nights of the year. Selene, the Moon, also had from Endymion 50 daughters&mdash;it is the same motif. Further ..."


 * Littleton, p. 1277
 * "They had 50 daughters who were often interpreted as the 50 lunar months of the four-year cycle that governed many of the great festivals&mdash;for example, the Olympic Games."


 * Beale, Greek Athletics and the Olympics p. 41
 * Note to Pausanias 6.20.9: "Endymion  ... he was loved by Selene (the moon goddess), and they had 50 daughters according to Pausanias. Zeus allowed him to sleep forever while retaining his youth" (No mention of connection between the 50 daughters and the Olympics).


 * Westmorland, Ancient Greek Beliefs p. 104'
 * " Examples: 1. Danus, ... 2. Hecuba, ... 3. Nereus and Doris, ... 4. Selene, ... 5. Thespius, ..."


 * Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll, Handbook of the religion and mythology of the Greeks, tr. by R.B. Paul, and ed. by T.K. Arnold 1852.  Francis John Rivington. p. 61
 * "These fifty daughters represent the fifty months which compose an Olympiad."


 * Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, Volume 21 1889 p. 550
 * Other 50 daughters/ gods related to lunar years


 * Tonsing, A Celtic Invocation: Cétnad nAíse PDF pp. 5–6
 * "... fifty daughters are produced (possibly the number of months between the Olympic games).


 * Mayerson p. 167
 * "Some scholars see in these fifty daughters the fifty lunar months that composed the four-year period of an Olympiad."


 * Jebb, The Poems and Fragments p. 297
 * "In an old legend of Elis, the 50 lunar months of this cycle appear as fifty daughters born by Selene to Endymion"


 * Seffert, A Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, Mythology, Religion, Literature and Art, from the German of Dr. Oskar Seyffert, p. 213
 * ""They were supposed to symbolize the fifty lunar months which intervened between Olympic games."

Endymion Sarcophagus

 * Myth Meaning, Memory on Roman Sarcophagi, 4. Endymion's Tale


 * Living with Myths: The Imagery of Roman Sarcohagi, p. 96


 * Hell and Its Afterlife, pp. 15–18


 * Hell and Its Afterlife, p. 16
 * "The popularity of this myth on sarcophagi is evidenced by the 120 extant examples, as Sorabella notes, p. 70"


 * Hell and Its Afterlife p. 18
 * "On one end of the Endymion sarcophagus, the Sun god Helios drives his chariot over the reclining personification of the Ocean, while on the other end the Moon goddess Selene rides over the female figure of the Earth (both not pictured)."


 * [Describing The Endymion Sarcophagus] " .. her veil billows over her head like a crescent-shaped moon, which when combined with the drapery of her dress, also forms the outline of the full moon"


 * Facing the Gods: Epiphany and Representation in Graeco-Roman Art, Literature and Religion,