Endymion’s Eternal Sleep and the Obsessive Love of Selene
This myth tells of the profound and haunting love between Selene, the Titan personification of the Moon, and a mortal shepherd named Endymion. To preserve his youth and beauty forever, Selene persuaded Zeus to place Endymion into an eternal, ageless slumber within a cave on Mount Latmus. There, she visits him every night, watching over his sleeping form as she traverses the night sky in her...