On Unbelievable Stories

Heraclitus Paradoxographus

Heraclitus Paradoxographus. On Unbelievable Stories. Hawes, Greta, et al., translators. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021. (Digital publication).

It is said that Selene fell in love with Endymion while he was sleeping, and that she came down and had sex with him. But rather, Endymion, as a shepherd, would have been inexperienced with women and so, if a woman lusted after him …[*](This part of the sentence has been lost, but the sense is clear.) and, asked by someone who it was, would have said the Moon [Selene].