Selene is generally depicted as a beautiful woman with a pale face, riding a silver chariot pulled by a yoke of oxen or a pair of horses. Often, she has been shown riding a horse or bull, wearing robes and a half-moon on her head and carrying a torch.
Though there were other moon goddesses, only Selene was represented by the old Greek poets as the moon incarnate.
She rises from the Ocean each night before making her way accross the sky.
Her love affair with Endymion produced 50 daughters representing the months between the Olympic games. Every night, Selene visited and embraced Endymion, who slept as a result of the gift to him of eternal life and youth.
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