Definitions for "Endymion"
Keywords:  selene, zeus, shepherd, goddess, love
A mythological youth of great beauty, loved by Selene, whom Zeus made sleep perpetually.
In Greek mythology a handsome shepherd from Asia Minor . He was so beautiful that Selene, the moon goddess, asked Zeus to grant him eternal life so she could be with him always. He consented and Zeus put him into an eternal sleep. Each night, Selene visits Endymion where he is buried and they have over fifty daughters together. [ Evening Muse; Bequest: December
Endymion is a lunar crater that lies near the northeast limb of the Moon. It is located to the east of the Mare Frigoris, and north of the Lacus Temporis. To the southwest is the somewhat smaller Atlas crater.
Endymion is a novel published in 1880 by Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, the former Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. It was the last novel Disraeli published before his death. He had been writing another, Falconet, when he died; it was published, incomplete, after his death.
Endymion is the third science fiction novel by Dan Simmons in his Hyperion Cantos fictional universe. Centered around the new characters Aenea and Endymion, it has been as well received as Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion - within a year of its release, the paperback edition had gone through five reprints http://www.erinyes.org/simmons/rendrev.html. The novel was nominated for the 1996 British Fantasy Award http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/dan-simmons/.