Images

Library of Ashurbanipal. Mesopotamia, 1500-539 BCE. The British Museum, London.

A map illustrating the reign of Krum the Fearsome (Bulgarian: Крум Страшни), a pagan khan of Bulgaria from about 800 until his death in 814. During his time on the throne, Krum embarked on an aggressive campaign of territorial expansion...

Caddoan figurine from, Spiro Mounds, c. 1200-1400. Indianapolis Museum of Art

Bust of Selene, in the courtyard of Palazzo Gerini, Florence.

The moon goddess Selene or Luna accompanied by the Dioscuri, or Phosphoros (the Morning Star) and Hesperos (the Evening Star). Marble altar, Roman artwork from Italy, 2nd century CE.

Selene and her horses on an Attic kylix attributed to the Brygos Painter, c. 490 BCE. Antikensammlung, Berlin.

A statue of Selene, shown wearing the crescent on her forehead and holding a torch in her right hand, while her veil billows over her head. Early imperial copy of an original from the early 4th century BCE. Capitoline Museums, Rome.

A c. 1765 portrait by Allan Ramsay of George III of Great Britain (r. 1760-1820) dressed in his coronation robes. (Art Gallery of South Australia)

Selene and Endymion, oil on canvas by Sebastiano Ricci, c. 1713. Chiswick House, London.

Tablet of the Sumerian and later Babylonian poem Ludlul-Bel-Nemeqi, also known as The Poem of the Righteous Sufferer, from Library of Ashurbanipal the 7th century BCE, Nineveh Deposit from the British Museum at the Louvre Museum, Paris...