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[grsskmythology]

About the Titans

So here’s a bit of a misconception that’s going around, that the Titans are not gods and are instead an entirely unrelated species.

Although even in antiquity the Titans were confused for the Giants, a non-godly group that fought the Olympians and lost, the Titans were still seen as gods. They are a subgroup of gods, much like the Primordials and the Olympians.

So here I have collected several instances where Titans are called gods; for no matter what group they belong to, those individuals were seen as divine, were seen as the same with the Olympians who came after them.

Astraeus and Eos

Theogony (Hesiod):

Ἀστραίῳ δ᾽ Ἠὼς ἀνέμους τέκε καρτεροθύμους, ἀργέστην Ζέφυρον Βορέην τ᾽ αἰψηροκέλευθον καὶ Νότον, ἐν φιλότητι θεὰ θεῷ εὐνηθεῖσα.

And Eos bore to Astraeus the strong-hearted winds, brightening Zephyrus, and Boreas, headlong in his course, and Notus - the goddess in love slept with the god.

Coeus and Phoebe

Theogony (Hesiod):

Φοίβη δ᾽ αὖ Κοίου πολυήρατον ἦλθεν ἐς εὐνήν· κυσαμένη δὴ ἔπειτα θεὰ θεοῦ ἐν φιλότητι Λητὼ κυανόπεπλον ἐγείνατο,

And again, Phoebe came to the bed of desired Coeus; and in love the goddess for the god bore and gave birth to cyan-robed Leto,

Cronus

Saturnalia (Lucian):

ΚΡΟΝΟΣ: ...οὐκ αἰδεσθεὶς πολιὸν οὕτω καὶ πρεσβύτην θεόν.

CRONUS: ...and you don’t respect a gray-haired and old god.

Dione and Themis

Homeric Hymn to Apollo:

θεαὶ δ’ ἔσαν ἔνδοθι πᾶσαι ὅσσαι ἄρισται ἔσαν, Διώνη τε Ῥείη τε Ἰχναίη τε Θέμις καὶ ἀγάστονος Ἀμφιτρίτη,

and there were with her [Leto] all the chiefest of the goddesses, Dione and Rhea and Ichnaea and Themis and loud-moaning Amphitrite,

Hecate

Theogony (Hesiod):

οὐδ᾽, ὅτι μουνογενής, ἧσσον θεὰ ἔμμορε τιμῆς,

the goddess doesn’t receive any less honour because she’s only-born,

Helios

Odyssey (Homer):

δεινοῦ γὰρ θεοῦ αἵδε βόες καὶ ἴφια μῆλα, Ἠελίου, ὃς πάντ' ἐφορᾷ καὶ πάντ' ἐπακούει.

for these are the cows and goodly sheep of a dread god, the Sun, who oversees all things and overhears all things.

Hymn to Artemis (Callimachus):

ἐπεὶ θεὸς οὔποτ᾽ ἐκεῖνον ἦλθε παρ᾽ Ἠέλιος καλὸν χορόν,

and never does the Sun god passes by that lovely dance,

The Sun and the Frogs (Aesop fables; Babrius’ version):

Γάμοι μὲν ἦσαν Ἡλίου θέρους ὥρῃ, τὰ ζῷα δ’ ἱλαροὺς ἦγε τῷ θεῷ κώμους.

The Sun’s wedding was to take place at summer, and all the animals happily celebrated for the god.  

Phaethon (Euripides):

[Clymene addresses her son Phaethon]

ΚΛΥΜΕΝΗ: μνησθεὶς ὅ μοὶ ποτ’ εἶφ’ ὅτ’ ηὐνάσθη θεὸς.

CLYMENE: Remind him, what the god told me when he slept with me.

Leto

Homeric Hymn to Apollo:

[The island of Delos addresses Leto]

ἀλλ’ εἴ μοι τλαίης γε, θεά, μέγαν ὅρκον ὀμόσσαι,

Yet if you will but dare to swear, goddess, a great oath,

Mnemosyne

Critias (Plato):

καὶ πρὸς οἷς θεοῖς εἶπες τούς τε ἄλλους κλητέον καὶ δὴ καὶ τὰ μάλιστα Μνημοσύνην.

But besides the gods you have mentioned, I would specially invoke Mnemosyne.

Historic Library (Diodorus Sicelus):

τῶν δὲ Τιτανίδων φασὶ Μνημοσύνην λογισμοὺς εὑρεῖν καὶ τὰς τῶν ὀνομάτων θέσεις ἑκάστῳ τῶν ὄντων τάξαι, [...] προσάπτουσι δὲ τῇ θεῷ ταύτῃ καὶ τὰ πρὸς ἀνανέωσιν καὶ μνήμην γινόμενα παρὰ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις,

Of the Titanesses they say that Mnemosyne discovered the uses of the power of reason, [...] And to this goddess is also attributed the power to call things to memory and to remembrance which men possess,

Prometheus

Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus):

ΠΡΟΜΗΘΕΥΣ: ἴδεσθέ μ’ οἷα πρὸς θεῶν πάσχω θεός.

PROMETHEUS: See what I, a god, suffer from the gods.

Rhea

Homeric Hymn to Apollo:

θεαὶ δ’ ἔσαν ἔνδοθι πᾶσαι ὅσσαι ἄρισται ἔσαν, Διώνη τε Ῥείη τε Ἰχναίη τε Θέμις καὶ ἀγάστονος Ἀμφιτρίτη,

and there were with her [Leto] all the chiefest of the goddesses, Dione and Rhea and Ichnaea and Themis and loud-moaning Amphitrite,

Hymn to Zeus (Callimachus):

εἶπε καὶ ἀντανύσασα θεὴ μέγαν ὑψόθι πῆχυν...

said the goddess and raised her great hand...

Selene

Orphic Hymn to Selene:

Κλῦθι, θεὰ βασίλεια, φαεσφόρε, δῖα Σελήνη,

Listen, goddess queen, light-bringer, divine Moon,

Homeric Hymn to Selene:

Χαῖρε ἄνασσα θεὰ λευκώλενε δῖα Σελήνη

Hail queen goddess white-armed divine Moon

Titans as a whole:

Theogony (Hesiod):

οὐδέ τί μιν Κρονίδης ἐβιήσατο οὐδέ τ᾽ ἀπηύρα, ὅσσ᾽ ἔλαχεν Τιτῆσι μετὰ προτέροισι θεοῖσιν,

The son of Cronus did her [Hecate] no wrong nor took anything away of all that she had been given by the Titans, the former gods.

Now obviously those are not the only examples, there are many out there, but my point is; Titans are gods. So, for example, Mnemosyne is not the “Titan of memory”, she is the “goddess of memory” or the “Titan goddess of memory”. They do not differ, in any meaningful way, from their children the Olympians.

[totheark-deactivated20190813]

hey guys so like apparently the characters from “its rotten work / not to me, not if its you” are cousins so maybe lets stop framing that in a romantic light and grouping that quote with those edits about love and stuff like that =(

[loamlovers]

doesn’t work like that in greek myth really, especially since both have divine blood. also if we’re cancelling orestes and pylades then we might as well just cancel all greek myth in general cause they’re all related

please don’t make orestes and pylades into something problematic because their story is one of very few revered classics in the world that depict gay true love. and for centuries orestes and pylades have been used by authors to lampshade their gay characters in times where writing gay characters would be a criminal offense. orestes and pylades are extremely important in the world of gay literature and i’d hate for people to overlook their earth shattering relationship becuase of a skewed analysis of greek myth

[anais-ninja-bitch]

imagine “discovering” that greek mythology is kinda problematic in 2019.

[star-anise]

Tumblr, y’know how you all just accepted Persephone/Hades even though he’s literally her uncle and there’s that whole “nonconsensual” aspect of their relationship? Yeah. Hold the gay ship to that standard, please.

[th4nkyoub3n]

i’m pretty sure greece didn’t know about the detrimental genetic effects of cousin incest back then. It’s not like they’re intentionally violating a taboo. if it were parent-child or siblings then I could see it.

[star-anise]

Hahahaha ummmm Greek mythology was full of that. Both parent/child (Gaia and Uranus, Oedipus and Jocasta, Adonis’s parents, Zeus and Persephone in some myths) and sibling (like… 90% of the Titans and Olympians, as in, most of the major gods of most parts of life).

Greek mythology is also full of a bunch of slavery and rape that the Greeks were frankly okay with. It was a SUPER HOT TAKE back then to say “Hey, maybe the people we conquer and enslave and rape… have feelings?” The Greeks also engaged in pederasty, where adult men had sexual relationships with adolescent boys and society was totally okay with it for a long time.

Like, that’s the thing. The ancient Greeks are PROBLEMATIC AS FUCK. They had VERY different social attitudes from us. If you require any piece of Greek culture to follow today’s morality, 99% of them would fail. That’s why holding Orestes to these standards means that you basically have to cancel all of Greek mythology.

So a lot of the modern reclamation/fandom around Greek myth is trying to say, “Hey, are there ways we can grapple with this and NOT have it come out super icky? Can we look past the very specific problematic ways these things reach us in text, and find alternate interpretations that restore the humanity to the people and groups the ancient Greeks violently silenced?” 

And part of that is looking at later works in ancient Greece, like the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, that revisit but drastically reinterpret those myths to go, “Wait, that’s super fucked up, can we find a new and better way?” And Orestes was one of the characters they wrote plays about, to sharply question old beliefs about how war was glorious and it was okay to unfairly kill someone when your religion dictated it. He’s not perfect, but he’s the example of someone ground between two impossible systems of belief who is saved from the brutality of the old system by a new emphasis on logic and peace.

But, you know, that’s not a view that most people will magically interpret when seeing “oresteia uwu” posts.

[findingfeather]

And in being that “problematic” they were totally not at all unique in any way. 

Despite the (actually relatively arrogant) unilateral declarations of the so-called Renaissance and afterwards, the peoples of the Mediterranean and surrounding areas of Antiquity are very very much different cultures than we are, in a very different surrounding context. And when you add in the element of mythology shit gets even more complex because the Greeks explicitly held mythological and divine characters to different standards than humans had in some areas. 

So unless you’ve done a lot of the research work it can be actually difficult to tell “does this reflect a standard norm? or is this something that is Okay Because Gods, but would be totally ‘that person needs killin’’ if it were humans involved? or is it something everyone knows WAS okay In The Days of Achilles* but is totally NOT okay NOW, or … .?” 

Because yeah: they also totally had “well of course we all know that you can’t do that NOW, but Back Then it was acceptable”. Yes, the Greeks already had that in 500ACE. (And before.) 

Everyone in History is almost certainly Problematic. So you know. 

*Achilles and Patroclus: also cousins! Like they were actually totally cousins. They were also totally fucking and later thinkers argued about who topped, but also: cousins. 

[alatismeni-theitsa]

Can Apollo not enter the underworld in Greek canon? Or is it just an LO thing?

Because, I've just been thinking about it for a while. We know he isn't welcomed but is he banned? Or just doesn't want to go? I've always been curious about that.

Demeter, Artemis, Aphrodite (I think), and Eros have entered just fine and it appears that anyone can just drive in and out of the underworld so, I've been kinda confused about it.

I haven’t read anything ever that said the gods of the Upper Real can’t go to Hades. They just avoid it, I guess. Hades in the myths didn’t hate Apollo so he had no reason to tell him he is not welcome. I don’t exactly know how things will go in the future LO episodes.

[grsskmythology]

Aeschylus put it rather nicely:

The unseen land [the Underworld] where Apollo does not walk, the sunless land that receives all men. - Seven Against Thebes, Aeschylus

So yes it’s true! In actual Greek myth, Apollo doesn’t visit the Underworld.

[ultracrazy-trashpanda]

Greek Mythology Shitpost #2

So, I’m still scrolling through Wikipedia.

And I see that Patroclus (Yes, the one who was gay for Achilles) was a lover of Poseidon.

But like, I never heard about this before and the only thing that pops up in Google is how in love Patroclus and Achilles was, nothing mentions Poseidon in the story.

So, If you know more or anything about this, please comment it, I just wanna know.

[grsskmythology]

It’s from Ptolemaeus Chennus’ New History, which only survives from Photius I’s work Myriobiblon.

Homer calls Patroclus the first horseman because he learned from Poseidon, who loved him, the art of riding horses.

The original text uses the word erastes, “lover”.

[greekromangods]

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[my-name-is-apollo]

Which of OSP's Miscellaneous Myths is your favourite?

Ohh, I think it's the pride tales! (for very obvious reasons) other than that I also really like Orion's video, the abduction of Ares, and the theogony

[mythogaychic]

Wait what was wrong in the Hyacinthus video? I haven't watched it in a while but nothing jumped out as wrong, then again I've never delved too deep into it

[grsskmythology]

I think @my-name-is-apollo​ refers to the fact that Apollo is presented as being unlucky in love (when he has had multiple lovers) and also the mention of his lovers Acantha and Leucates; there’s no Acantha in Greek mythology, and Leucates is a rock, not a failed attempt of Apollo.

[whatshouldwecallhomer]

@ everyone in the last post pointing out that Odysseus slept with other women while he was trying to get back to Ithaca like it's brand new information: first off, we know, thank you, we've read the damn book.

Secondly, have you read the book? In neither case is Odysseus' tenure with Circe and Calypso portrayed as fully voluntary - he's an outright captive of Calypso and spends all his free time crying and staring at the sea. Things didn't get off to a great start with Circe either. I feel like the modern interpretation of the encounters with the goddesses in the Odyssey make it out as though Odysseus was just screwing around for the ten years between the end of the Trojan War and his homecoming, but that is reading against the text pretty significantly. I'm not saying there's 0 textual support for that reading but there's much much more in the opposite direction. The Odyssey is a nostos story - it derives its narrative tension from Odysseus' struggle to get home, so the story doesn't happen without the challenges he faces along the way.

Third - when you reduce the episodes with Calypso and Circe to "Odysseus is a bad husband because he cheated on Penelope", you're missing a really interesting parallel to the Iliad, where the events of the story are precipitated by a fight over a captive woman. We don't actually get very much of Briseis' perspective, despite the fact that the story couldn't start without her. She has very few lines of dialogue. But when we get to the Odyssey, now the story starts with the main character who is essentially powerless in the role of a slave concubine. Do the gender ramifications there not make your head spin? In the Iliad, a straightforward poem about straight shooting heroes, which romanticizes war as much as it critiques it, the experiences of the war captives is all but absent. In the Odyssey, we see the aftermath of war and its impacts up close and personal, although the narrative comes at it at an angle (incidentally, the way Odysseus himself comes at problems). If you don't want to examine that because you think Odysseus was a bad guy for cheating on Penelope... okay? That's your prerogative I guess. You're missing out some of the best stuff in the poems though!

(Incidentally I'm not saying Odysseus is a *good* guy, either - he's a man of many ways, as Emily Wilson put it, he's "a complicated man" - but that's what makes him so interesting! If he were 100% wholesome and Unproblematic, we wouldn't be reading this shit 2800 years later! Trust me! There are some extremely boring ancient works I've read where everybody does exactly what they were supposed to do! I'd rather read the Odyssey!)

Fourth, and I don't exactly know how to frame this, even if you take Odysseus' captivity with Circe and/or Calypso as infidelity... that doesn't actually mean that he and Penelope don't still have this crazy powerful bond! He deploys all his cleverness to escape from Calypso (even though she offers him immortality!) and then from Circe (in part) because they can't offer him the like-mindedness he has with Penelope! He leaves because he wants to go back to Ithaca, his kingdom, and his family! And it's not some kind of secret affair! Odysseus TELLS Penelope about both of them the same day she finally recognizes him and they reunite! If it is infidelity, it doesn't compromise the foundation of their relationship.

Sorry for the long post y'all but I could not let this go

[the-turtleduck-pond]

Anytime I think of people that read Lore Olympus not getting the difference between mythos Apollo and the story’s Apollo I get mad. Because he was not problematic that way, but he was fucking crazy and petty as all hell.

Every single thing I’ve read with the gods gets something wrong about him in particular.

Honestly a bunch of triggering subjects under the cut.

Keep reading

[grsskmythology]

That’s not true, that he never raped anyone, unfortunately. He forced himself on the young Athenian princess Creusa after dragging her in a cave as she screamed for her mother. He also forced Dryope.

Additionally, he chased Daphne and Bolina until the former begged her father to change her form and the latter committed suicide. Even in the myth of Cassandra, he seems to have pursued her rather ardently, even if he didn’t force her.

He may have not forced Persephone but that doesn’t mean he never forced anyone.

[weaver-z]

There are a few pretty okay Greek gods! Hades was faithful to his wife always, Apollo’s only flaw was his dates kept dying (outside his control) , and as far as I recall Dionysus and Hermes just wanted to cause mischief

Man... Persephone was an abducted teen... Apollo did multiple r*pes... Dionysus r*ped a woman while she was asleep.... genuinely I think Hermes is the only one who didn’t sexually assault someone lmao. Like I love Greek mythology but the characters have to be rewritten in any adaptation to be remotely redeemable. If you don’t believe any of my claims just look up “(name of god) rape” and it will immediately give you like ten results lsdjfklsjf

[grsskmythology]

Actually, Hermes did rape a mortal princess named Apemosyne. And Chione (not Boreas and Oreithyia’s daughter Chione, another one) in one version too.

[mxbutchtwink]

Absolutely living for the fact that in ancient Greece, it was said that when Apollo was drunk he created people with the "wrong" genitalia,, which, first of all, means that 1. trans people are not a new thing, we've always been here and we've always found ways to justify and explain our existence, and 2. the way that we chose to explain ourselves at one point was, "Yeah, the sun was wasted as hell when he made me, but it's cool." and that is fucking awesome

[transenbyhollis]

christians: god makes no mistakes

ancient greeks: actually sometimes god os just really fucking wasted

[thiefofgenders]

Not trying to be an asshole or anything but I think OP got a little confused between two myths. Below is a message from my classical history PhD friend, Alex:

"Aristophanes in Plato's Symposium said that Apollo was responsible for sealing up the split after people's true pairs were cut apart (people used to be made of two halves, sort of like soulmates, and Zeus punished them by splitting them)

Phaedrus (early CE) attributes Prometheus' getting drunk with people with 'misapplying' genitalia - both applicable to trans people and intersex people.

It makes more sense that Prometheus, creator of mankind, was the one creating certain groups of people, rather than Apollo."

Basically we have Prometheus to thank for our trans and intersex siblings and it's still rad as hell. Dude hangs out on a cliff and gets his liver eaten every day so I think we can cut him some slack given what he's been through

[alatismeni-theitsa]

May i ask the Greek word for”songbird “? Like a thrush, wren, lark, etc? Thank you! 😁

Surely! Unfortunatelly “songbird“ is not poetic at all in Greek and we don’t use it in a casual way. It’s “ωδικό πτηνό“ (oh-thee-KO ptee-NOH) = singing bird

[odiko-ptino]

Aha! So google translate was right after all... it gave me a weird answer and I wasn’t sure 😅 singing bird sounds lovely to me , but does it apparently also mean “road bird”?

[grsskmythology]

Road bird would be “οδικό”, as opposed to “ωδικό”. Unfortunately, the distinction is lost in transliteration.

[gu3rrillag0th]

Guess what daaaaay it isssss!

Happy Earth, Wind, and Fire Day! Boogie down now, y’all.

[greek-mythographer]

The flower is not from a modern adaptation (I meant to put that in the same last ask)

It is dude. Narcissus didn't die until after Persephone was kidnapped. He turned into the flower. How could Persephone accept the flower if it didn't exist yet?

[grsskmythology]

But in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Gaia made a narcissus grow to lure Persephone (who picks it) for Hades.

[littlesparklight]

This is my hill:

Hera isn’t just some ~abused housewife.

She was not raped by Zeus so she’d marry him (look, if you want to interpret the cuckoo myth that way, be my guest, but there’s no support of that unquestionably being what happened and claiming that is just wrong.), and she can and has left him. Zeus had to win her back, and if she didn’t want to be convinced, she would’ve just not come back with him.

She also fucks people up if they claim to love each other as much as/more than she and Zeus love each other (aside from being hubris, this wouldn’t be something to be angry about if they didn’t supposedly love each other).

Have a second hill while we’re at it:

Zeus has good qualities, ACTUALLY, and (general) you are boring and lack nuance when you pretend he’s the horny root of all evil in Greek mythology. yeah, He’s a cheater, because fertility and the ancient Greeks wanted to be related to the gods/the king of the gods, but he also indulgent as all hell, gives his children gifts, is actually a good ruler who obeys the same laws everyone else does even when he really doesn’t want to (ft. Sarpedon).

He also clearly feels bad Hades got stuck with the “bad” end in their allotment of ruling domains, and promises Hades a gift for it (I mean we can talk about the unfortunate display of patriarchy in that said gift is “a wife of his choosing” because Zeus as king and father of a number of daughters can offer that but that’s a different issue entirely), and these two are supposed to have a bad relationship?

I don’t take any critique, thank you. Go be boring on your own posts.

[merkuriyy]

I know I don’t seem like the type of person to like this kind of stuff based on what I post….But, come on, this is true af.

[jackcinephile]

Remember kids, one version is an accurate extrapolation of their relationship, based on a vague description from an ancient Greek source. The other version has no basis in the source material, and only exists because the author wanted to virtue signal by exploiting trauma for the sake of “female empowerment”.

[my-name-is-apollo]

If Zeus decided to step down, which of his kids would get the throne? I believe Ares is the oldest of his and Hera's children so therefore next in line but Zeus plays favourites so Athena? But then there's Also Dionysus who still has the heart of Zagreus wuo was supposed to be the next king so i need your expert opinion

Strenght/ability wise, it would either be Athena or Apollo. I don't think Ares would be in the line because he's not as powerful or important to Zeus as Athena or Apollo (and in Hesoid's timeline, Apollo is Zeus' first son, not Ares. Although, some of the later accounts contradict that). I don't think Dionysus could be bothered to be the king lol, it's too much responsibility for a god who loves fooling around and having fun (plus, him and Zagreus are different beings imo, even if one of them is just the other reborn). Many poets, including Homer and Callimachus, put an emphasis on how Apollo is next only to Zeus in power. Zeus assigned many important tasks to Apollo. Apollo was also allowed to use the thunderbolt and the aegis. Well, Athena did too, which is why I think that they're both equally good candidates. But if you go by the norms of ancient greece, Apollo is the obvious choice since he is the son, and it was the son that was considered the heir, not the daughter.

[grsskmythology]

An interesting take on succession is given by a scholiast on Virgil’s Bucolics.

Orpheus mentions first the reign of Saturnus, then that of Jupiter, then Neptune’s, and lastly Pluto’s. Also some, like the mages, say that there will be a reign of Apollo.

(The translation is mine, so it’s has some mistakes, but this is essentially what it says).

Now this seems to be an Orphic thing, rather than a generally accepted myth, but it’s still fun to look at it. 

[evescottage-deactivated20211213]

A list of mortals in the Greek mythos who messed with gods and got their shit rocked

TW: m*rder, s**cide

Niobe- Had more children than the goddess Leto and claimed that she should be worshipped instead. Artemis and Apollo killed all of her children as revenge.

Cassandra- Extremely accurate oracle who promised to marry Apollo, but broke this oath. Apollo cursed her so no one would ever believe her prophecies.

Arachne- Claimed to be a better weaver than Athena. Was challenged to a contest with the goddess, and got her ass clapped for disrespecting the goddess of war. Committed s**cide, was turned into a spider.

Endymion- Was loved by the goddess Selene, who begged Zeus to make him never die. Zeus put Endymion in an eternal sleep.

Paris- Disrespected Athena and Hera by choosing Aphrodite as the most beautiful goddess over them. Stole the wife of a Greek king, which led to the Greeks declaring war on Troy, which led to Paris getting his shit rocked and then dying.

Do you still want to disrespect the gods? Do you still want to be a godspouse? Do you still have a crush on your deity? Take this as a lesson and a warning.

[grsskmythology]

Hm, I generally agree, except for Endymion.

It was Endymion who asked Zeus to put him into eternal sleep, so I doubt this counts as mortals messing up with gods. He got exactly what he wished for - that’s a favour, not a punishment.

Endymion was the son of Calyce and Aethlius [...] A man of unrivaled beauty, he was loved by Selene. When he was given a wish of his choice by Zeus, he chose to remain immortal and unaging in eternal sleep - Apollodorus, The Library

And the fact that this is a blessing by Zeus is reinforced here

Hesiod says that Endymion was the son of Aethlius, the son of Zeus, and Calyce, and received the gift from Zeus : ‘(To be) keeper of death for his own self when he was ready to die - A scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius

There is a version where the sleep is punishment from Zeus, but it’s not connected to Selene.

In the Great Eoeae [work of Hesiod] it is said that Endymion was transported by Zeus into heaven, but when he fell in love with Hera, was befooled with a shape of cloud, and was cast out and went down into Hades - The same scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius